That is true about the NFC East, they are overrated. The only reason people say they are the best division in football is cause they have the superbowl champs and the cowboys. But look at the cowboys, supposed to be the 16-0 world champs this year, but they are 5-3 and are starting to cry. Washington may have the worst pass rush in the NFL, and they cannot handle a blitzing defense, 7 sacks last night. They will be made fools of in M&T.

The raiders really are the worst team int he NFL for sure. The Falcons controlled the clock for over 45 MINUTES! AND THEY WERE HELD TO 77 TOTAL NET YARDS!!!!! HOLY SHIT! Dont believe it, cause I didnt want to, but look! That is just sad man. The Lions and Bengals at least show some spark in their offenses with some very talented WR’s.

Titans are incredible, and I love that they dont get talked about that much. At this time last year, 10 minutes did not go by on ESPN or NFL Network where we didnt see Tom Brady’s face and the rest of the Pats. Pats lost that superbowl because of the pressure they had on them to be the greatest team ever. Titans have barely any or NONE on them to be great, because they win in a boring way, just like our Ravens. They Destroy offenses with their defense, force them to field goals, run the ball very well, kick field goals, some tds by rushing, and have a mediocre old QB.

The Titans are really good, but they are not as good as everyone thinks they are. They’re defense is not as good as the 2000 Ravens, although their offense is better. I don’t think they’ll go undefeated, but they are a very good team and I hope they beat the crap out of the Steelers.

On your note about the Ravens and Steelers defenses, footballoutsiders strongly feel that we and the Steelers and the Titans are the three best teams in the AFC. Crazy.

The Dolphins are actually good. I mean, Joey Porter is having a monster season, although I still hate him. Chad Pennington is being well-protected and is one of the best QBs in the NFL, and still painfully overrated. The Dolphins have so far beaten the Patriots, Bills, Chargers, and Broncos and lost to the Ravens, Texans, Jets and Cardinals. They still get to play the Patriots, Jets, and Bills once more, along with the Rams, 49ers, Seahawks, Raiders and Chiefs. They could be a 10-6 playoff team. That is stunning. It definitely reflects well on the Ravens that we were able to beat them, and the game was probably closer than the score suggested.

The Ravens road to the playoffs is really really hard. I think we have to win the non-NFC games. All of them. Beat the Steelers, Texans, Bengals, and Jaguars. That’s the order from most difficult to least. It’s crazy to be at 5-3 and have 4 games be must wins, but we have to beat the teams we are supposed to, and the Texans, Bengals and Jags fall into that category. We are going to need the Divisonal record to break tie-breakers, so beating Pittsburgh is a must. After that, we’ll still need one of the NFC East game. The Redskins, Eagles and Cowboys are all possibilities. I wouldn’t place high probability on beating the Giants in their own stadium.

to get the Redskins in here. Also looking forward to see how we stack up against McNabb, Westbrook and the Eagles. Game at Meadowlands against NY Giants will be a war, but I’m not optimistic about the outcome, although we will give them a beating. Would love to close Dallas’ stadium with a win there, huh?

The Titans are a solid 8-0. Their not winning by 1 big play or zipping deep balls around, their winning by running the ball. Unfortunatly, they have 2 backs that can grind it out and break long runs. It’s like the way the Roman army moved..packed tight together with shields touching. They will be tough to bust open…(even though we did ; )

The Steelers just flat out show up for big games. They may split with us but when the lights get flipped on, their juiced. Their defense crushed a very good Skins O which had unbelievable field position. They even managed to overload the line and block a punt…first one ever against that kicker. They moved the ball well with a 2nd string QB and 3rd string running back. Ward again came through with huge 3rd down catches..and had a few smiles for the end zone fans (all Steeler fans for sure-shame on Skins fans for being run out of their seats again). Their defense gets penetration without getting their DB’s exposed. Wish we could do that.

Weaknesses-

Titans star back might not be able to take a 16 game beating with his size- I hope. One bad hit on Collins puts them in a huge bind. They play every game so close to the vest they are bound to loose a few to bad and good teams. One bad call (which they don’t get), a turnover or a big play could beat them. Like the 2000 Raven’s, everything has to go just right. There are no 14 point victories. But, if they remain solid and with home field advantage..their in the AFC Championship game easily. After seeing the Skins fall bad to Pitt., the Giants just as bad to Cleveland I’m not sure the NFC can overcome the AFC defensive line play.

The Steelers are slowy running out of bullets. The Rothlesberger is beat up and I’m not sure he will be able to fully over come his shoulder injury this year. Very smart to have picked up a vet QB as back up. They are still beat up at running back and Ward is the only true 3rd down threat they have outside of dumping to Parker. They are literally playing off smarts (except the opening on-side kickoff) and a great D line. Not sure if they can truly come back on teams without turnovers.

After seeing the Skins fall bad to Pitt., the Giants just as bad to Cleveland I’m not sure the NFC can overcome the AFC defensive line play.

The Giants beat the Steelers at Pittsburgh. Eli was able to move the ball on the “best defense” in the NFL. Cleveland just had a few things going for them against NYG, and we showed the rest of the NFL why Cleveland is a joke. Yes, the Steelers have the toughest schedule in the NFL, but their next 5 games against Indi, SD, Cinci, NE, Dallas, all but the New Engalnd game is at Heinz Field. I honestly do not see the Steelers losing the next 5 games.

As much as I would love to see Manning torch that overrated secondary, LT juke their PRO BOWL long snapper, James Harrison, Ochenta Cinco (Which is really 85) talk smack and back it up, Moss kill on the bombs and TO run his mouth out of Pitt with a victory, I just dont see it happening. They have 5 of their next 8 games at home, which they can win them all, its one of the hardest places to win football games. Their Pass Rush is incredible, I do not know why the Ravens cant pass rush like they do and get to the QB like they do, we have just as good talented Line Backers and Def Ends as they do if not better (Definitely Better).

Again, I would 100% love to see Pitt fail miserably, but they play with such intelligence that it is almost looking hard for them to lose. The only games I see Pitt losing this 2nd half of the season is to Tenn and Us. Leaving them with a 12-4 record.

PLEASE BEATDOWN, TELL ME IM WRONG, I CANT BELIEVE I GAVE CREDIT TO THE STEELERS, IM FALLING APART!

I dont know what came about me. I watched the game last night rooting for a Redskins team almost as hard as a I root for our boys. I had hope in the beginning with a quick 6-0 lead, then everything fell apart. As much as I hate the Steelers and would spit on the coffins at their funerals, I watched the game in amazement of how good they really can play. They beat a very well rounded Redskins team with freaking Byron Ice Cream Sandwich. I just could not get over how fast and hostile their defense is. They won a game on MNF on the road, and head back home for 3 straight games. I do not know who I want to root for in the next game as well!

The steelers host the colts, which is a team in the wild card hunt along with us, and if we tie them at the end of the season, guess who has the edge. On the other hand, we are 1 game behind Pittsburgh in the AFC North and need them to lose to try and get this Division, but with that pass rush they have, I dont even think Jesus Christ could have a good game. IM SORRY IM SORRY IM SORRY!

I love the way we are playing right now, and we all know here that we could be 7-1 right now. Even though the Steelers started the season with the toughest schedule in the NFL, I still feel that we have a tougher 2nd half then they do, due to the fact that most of the good teams they face at Heinz Field. Sorry guys, I have been couped up in this library studying Economics since 11 am, its not 5 pm, just going a little insane.

…That our rookie led team is being mentioned in the same sentence with a veteran Steelers team and veteran led Titans team at this point in the year is telling of our future..out of all of these teams it’s good to be a Raven.

You are not needed here anymore until the week prior to December 14th.

if only Rufflesberger didn’t help tackle that dude who picked up Bettis’s fumble on the goal line…damn

all the Steeler hype and 1 championship since the Swann era….wow.

i’ll have to wait before i go any further..i’m a fair blogger and at this point it’s Steelers 1 Ravens 0…and your in first. still hate your team though…because their good and your fans move in on teams i.e Skins…man that’s hard to be objective..it keeps things sane.

I think the Ravens have probably had more injuries than the Steelers, since this is what the major contention has been about.

Consider
Steelers – Bryan McFadden CB, and Clark S in the secondary
Ravens – Rolle CB, Landry S, McCallister CB in the secondary. Plus Ed Reed is banged up pretty bad with a chance his career might end prematurely – I’d say ‘advantage’ Ravens.

LB – No-one from either team really. I mean Ravens have a couple good depth guys on IR, but the starting squadrons for both teams are completely in place.

DL – So, here the Steelers lost Hampton for some time and Keisel for some time. That’s really tough, but does it beat losing Kelly Gregg all the time for the sucks to be me department? I’d say wash, although it might favor the Steelers cause it must have been freaking difficult to get a DLine rotation going when missing two guys. But, I really miss Buddy Lee.

QB – So Ben has been banged up, but honestly, that’s the Steelers offensive line’s fault. Ben getting banged up was pretty much a given. Furthermore, we all seem to pretend that the Ravens’ plan all along was to start Joe Flacco. It’s worked out well, but Harbaugh clearly wanted to start either Boller or Smith before Flacco, because the very going straight from Delaware to the NFL is pretty insane. Whoops. This has more of an effect than I think some people realize, because it’s been difficult for Flacco to develop chemistry with his first team receivers when he never got to work with them in training camp until the last two weeks.

RB – Well, Obviously this one favors the Steelers. And it’s big too, but just like with the Ravens big loss at QB, the RB injuries haven’t really worked out too badly for the Steelers.

OL – So the Steelers have Marvel Smith hurting and Kendall Simmons on IR. The Ravens have Adam Terry hurting and Marshall Yanda on IR. This is pretty much a wash, except for the fact that Yanda has the distinction of being, well… good at football. (I know Smith was good at football, but now?)

TE – Heath Miller has been fine, but he got banged up on Monday. I have no idea how he’s doing now. The Ravens miss Quinn Sypniewski more than a lot of people realize. He’d be doing all of the Todd Heap blocking stuff allowing the Ravens to send the Todd on more routes. Not to mention every rookie TE we signed got injured in training camp. Plus Dan Wilcox is now hurt two. Definitely Ravens.

WR – Steelers top 3 have been more or less healthy. Smoking pot is not an injury. Demetrius Williams is on IR. Favors the Ravens.

ST – Steelers lost their Punter and Longsnapper for the season. That sucks. Who knows what’s wrong with Ravens returnman Yamon Figurs… Favors the Steelers.

I think the Ravens have had more injuries at more positions, but I know more about the Ravens depth situations (like the injured TE factory) than I do about the Steelers. Still, it’s a pretty difficult argument to make that the Steelers have had more injury problems than the Ravens.

I don’t know if this matters, I’d rather bitch about officiating personally. Injuries are part of the game and they suck, but it’s really annoying to say “you only beat us because we didn’t have so-and-so.” How many damn teams get to play a game with all 22 of their starters. Not often.

Also, any banging up of Roethlisberger doesn’t count. The effort the Steelers made to protect him is just shameful. Everyone knew the O-line was trouble and the Steelers let it get worse.

But, injuries to the secondary have to account for some of the Browns – Ravens game. Any time Braylon Edwards is being covered by Evan Oglesby, something has gone horribly wrong. A lot of the Browns offense though was just the Browns killing us on special teams. The Ravens ST has been a huge disappointment all season.

I just left him out by complete accident. Obviously that’s important

I completely forgot about Charlie Batch, I’m still angry at the Steelers for not attempting to improve their O-Line though. Watching good QBs get the crap kicked out of them is simply not entertaining. Leftwich stayed on his feet because the vast majority of his drops seemed to be of the 3 step release and underneath stuff variety. Maybe the Steelers just made half-time adjustments, which is all fine and good. The only way you can possibly argue the Steelers O-Line is close to average in pass protection however is if you argue that Ben Roethlesberger is a mediocre QB that simply holds on to the ball for way to long. I’m not buying it.

What the heck is a boundary prediction???

All seems well in Pitt. to me. If injuries make you 6-2 go break a leg.
Leftwich has a little something to prove and, to me, is just a heftier version of Berger.
I don’t think they loose much at QB…What does Ben usually give the team..maybe 210 yards on a good day. I just hope Lefty is easier to sack.