NFL Playoff Power Rankings

1. Green Bay
2. Baltimore
   #3-32- A bunch of other teams that will be watching the Super Bowl from home this year.

in the league NFC right now.

Eric DeCosta staying in Balt. Will not take anymore interviews at this time. Good news!

but I don’t agree with the Pats being #3 and the Ravens #4. Yes, the Pats have the #1 seed in the AFC and home field throughout, but if this is truly a POWER ranking, looking at the playoff teams in the AFC, what puts New England above Balitmore? Ravens are undefeated against playoff teams they’ve played. While the numbers escape me right now I know the Pats lost to the Giants and the Steelers, both playoff teams. New England finished 13-3, the Ravens finished 12-4. Pats have Tom Brady yes, but they also have the worst defense in the league statistically. So how does Brady alone catapult them to #1? These are probably all rhetorical questions but looking at both teams right now going into the playoffs, the Ravens should be considered the team to beat in the AFC.

The quote about the Ravens is justified. I’m not too optimistic as Cam continues to run on 2 and 15’s, 1st and 15’s and 2nd and 10’s. You just don’t do that if you have the guts in your QB to get it done. I don’t think the top 5 or 6 QB’s in the league run on 2nd and 15.

My greatest fear is that Cam remains predicatable throughout the playoffs (i use throughout lightly). Who would have thought that a 2nd and 15 run is predictable but Cam is now known for that around the league and whatever suprise he thinks he is springing on an opponent is no longer there. Does he not trust Joe to pass on 2nd and 15? Does he not realize that running on 2nd and 15 and 2nd and 10 results in a VERY obvious and long 3rd down?

I think Joe is being held back by Cam in a huge way if you are running on these downs. Not even a Rice check down but a flat out, give up run just to get to 3rd and 10 or 3rd and 6. Not good. Alas, I think Cam will die by the conservative sword as it has gotten him this far. It is also a mistake for him not to sling it around anywhere beyond 2nd and 4. We cannot be obvious. We need to put teams away and create some distance with the pass.

The Bengals game was way too close and I don’t trust our D stopping a final drive. Ray and Ed are on their heals more than ever. Flacco needs to win this on his arm. He has too and Cam should not hand-cuff the kid and hope for a few large ray Rice runs. My fear, Flacco and Cam have not seasoned a passing game enough to survive a sluggish run game. And please Cam, do not abandon a smooth drive ounce you sniff the opponents 35. Remain on course and don’t throw 3 plays away just to try for Torrey in the end zone. There will be times for that, just not when we are moving the ball at 4-5 yard clips.

I think the opponents have a great feel for Cam because he has remained true to form throughout the year. His overthinking is now his worse enemy. He will have a better chance if he just plays straight up football, running, using his TE’s and waiting for the mismatches with his WR’s. Feel the game Cam. Feel the game.

I’d like to add that when we commit to the pass we are failry efficient. Flacco on 3rd down has down a nice job. Let’s just start pulling those 3rd down passes into the 2nd down so we are not 1 incompletion away from turning the field back over to our D. We need Rice too much. Let’s level the field and make Pitta, Dickson, Boldin a first threat.

i try to be objective but i have a tendency to see everything thats wrong and it takes some of the fun out of the game. i wish i could just go to a game and enjoy my home team rah rah. but, when we have the talent and it’s right their in front of us and, as fans, we have to battle our own OC’s for so long. i’d like to think we’ve turned our team over to a higher powe in our C but most of the time i feel we have been retarded by them. theirs maybe 1 drive a game where you come away feeling good about all our parts. there are many drives where you jsut wonder what planet Cam is on.

options? not sure, but Norv was a very frustrating coach in Washington. He continues his bridesmaid status in SD. The reason, he out foxes himself, gives up on whats working to complete his game plan. He falls in the lack of game feel category and would be an extension on Cam.

Example, after throwing his team into position last year against us he abandons the pass and tries to run a small sprolls up the gut where he meets ray and game over. That final drive had us winded against the pass and I’d rather take my chances passing against the ravens there than running up the gut through ngata and ray. that is norv. no ervin, aikmen, smith=norv never gets his first head coach job.

not sure that is what we have. reed has never looked worse and ray is average in pass coverage to be nice. ngata isn’t getting into the backfield like he has in yeas past. our D needs our run game badly. they need to rest more than ever. the pollard pick up is looming huge now that he is the only enforcer in the secondary. webb is our best technique tackler and JSmith just needs to relax and ball.

i think we are good but far far from our previous shut down d’s. regardless, ray and ed need to prove they can stop that final drive. it has been something they have failed to do for many years now. flacco has proven he can win it. i’d ALMOST rather have joe on the field with the ball with 2 minutes and us down by 6 than our D on the field up by 6 with 2 minutes against brady, brees or ben.

yep…we needed this just as much as a home game.