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Mike Dussault

Key ingredient for Ravens’ success is a lot of Rice – The Boston Globe

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Key ingredient for Ravens’ success is a lot of Rice – The Boston Globe

Great breakdown of the Ravens, and what the Patriots did last year against them.

“You control Ray Rice, and you don’t let them throw it over your head,’’ Coyle said. “It goes back to the old Marv Levy saying: ‘What it takes to win is simple, but it’s not easy.’ “To me, when you look at this team, it’s very simple. You stop 27, and you don’t let Torrey Smith or Lee Evans or [Anquan] Boldin run deep down the field and catch it over your head. Keep the ball in front of you and don’t allow them to establish their run game. “But that’s easier said than done. Because what happens inevitably is you start to overload to defend the run and they get their one-on-one situations out on the perimeter or they get you into short-yardage situations and then they come off a real good play-action shot down the field and they can generate a big play.’’

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On Flacco. It’s obviously hard to tell when you’re not there daily, but looking at the offense, and watching the interaction between offensive coordinator Cam Cameron and Flacco, there just seems to be a disconnect. When’s the last extended period that Flacco tore up an opponent? (St. Louis, maybe, with the Torrey Smith explosion?) I don’t recall. Maybe the December game at the wounded Colts, but that almost doesn’t count. He’s had some good moments, but 13 touchdowns in the last 13 regular season games?

With the arm that Flacco has, it’s got to be killing him that the passing game has struggled the way it has. With Smith and Anquan Boldin, to have 20 teams better this season in the illuminating passing yards-per-play stat is a worry. Now, the key for Flacco, and the most important thing with a defense like Baltimore’s, is to be safe with the ball … and he deserves an A-plus for that. In seven games against playoff teams this season, Flacco is 7-0 – and he’s thrown just two interceptions. (With 10 touchdowns, and a 62-percent accuracy rate.) That’s the kind of game Flacco has to play Sunday: move the chains, don’t turn it over, keep the clock running.

Joe Flacco has struggled, but just has to keep it simple against the Patriots – Peter King – SI.com

https://www.patspropaganda.com/on-flacco-its-obviously-hard-to-tell-when-youre/

2010 Patriots Defensive Snaps vs. Ravens

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2010 Patriots Defensive Snaps vs. Ravens

The defensive snap numbers from last season paint an interesting picture that we might be able to extrapolate from when thinking about how the Patriots defense might be put together for Sunday.

Outside of Meriweather and Cunningham, every one of the defensive players that played the majority of snaps are back. Now, instead of Meriweather playing Free Safety, the Pats will likely put Chung there, with Ihedigbo being the in the box safety. Ihedigbo has had his issues but his size and physicality should be a plus in this one.

On the outside linebacker front you had Mark Anderson playing a huge role against the Broncos. Cunningham played his most snaps to date in last year’s game, a clear sign of how much the Pats wanted to put forth their most stout and physical defensive front seven.

So this is where a major question comes in, do the Pats keep Anderson out there in base or is he too big of a risk in the run game? If they go back to the 4-3 defense we could see an Ellis-Love-Wilfork-Deaderick line up front which might be the best option. Surely Anderson will get some snaps in sub-packages as will Dane Fletcher.

Below are the Pats who played the great majority of the snaps. They were in the 3-4 defense for 75% of the snaps.

  • S Patrick Chung – 77 of 77
  • ILB Jerod Mayo – 77 of 77
  • CB Devin McCourty – 77 of 77
  • CB Kyle Arrington – 76 of 77
  • S Brandon Meriweather – 68 of 77
  • OLB Jermaine Cunningham – 59 of 77
  • OLB Rob Ninkovich – 58 of 77
  • DL Vince Wilfork – 58 of 77
  • ILB Brandon Spikes – 57 of 77
  • NT Gerard Warren – 56 of 77
  • DE Brandon Deaderick – 52 of 77