I feel you on dis one. We should be able to win this game at home. Remeber that monday night game when pitt blew us out? We shouldnt have lost by that much. We got to big ben so many times but he was able to break alot of sacks and throw to wide open recievers. That will not happen again. We will hit big ben and he is going to get hurt. They lost there best o-line men in Alan Fanacea which will make it easier to stop the run and attack big ben!

...than the loss of a cornerback, much less both corners. We had both McAlister and Rolle on the bench in that Monday Night game. CB is the toughest position to replace. Having to replace both starters is virtually impossible. Even the Ravens offense would have had a field day against Derrick Martin and Corey Ivy! This season will be a lot different!

How many times have you seen the starting QB get injured and the backup come in and do real well? A lot of times, it’s the game plan and the QB just steps right in and succeeds in a sort of “dummied-down” offense, but he still succeeds. An injured offensive lineman can get assistance from the guard, tight end and/or RB in blocking, or the offense can work away from that side of the line. However, at cornerback, you are at the mercy of the ooponent’s offense, who will mercilessly pick on the replacement, much less both replacements for both starting corners, which the Ravens had to deal with last year. Therefore, I respectfully disagree, as there are so few good corners, but a lot of good backup QB’s and decent o-linemen.

JO was out most of last year and we lived w/o him. Now we have more athletic linemen all along the line, including improvements are nearly all line positions other than JO’s spot. The others may have either moved to their natural position and have an added year of experience. Regarding the CB coverage, you just can’t roll coverage to help out when you’ve lost BOTH starting corners, which was my point. Furthermore, all offensivecoords know that, so they flood the pass coverage with four and five wide sets, putting these guys on 1-1 coverage and that’s where we got destroyed last year.

...those horrible memories from the past. McAlister is still one of the best, but always seems to give up a big one every game to the better receivers. However, when push comes to shove, he’s still one of the better CB’s when healthy. Of course, the operative word is “healthy.” We will see this year, my friend, we will see starting week #3.