Loved your Gameplan column. I agree on a lot of the points. Rank the following on the concern-o-meter: Protection/ O-line; Inability to generate a pass rush; Flacco scrambling for 1st downs; penalties; short yardage situations (offense); short yardage situations (defense). This may not be played out by the stats, but my recollection is that at home with the benefit of the snap count and easier communication the O-Line has played much better than on the road (NYJ, SD, GB, KC, MIA).

Thanks. As I’ve written my only real concern is that our OL shows up to play. If that happens the rest of those issues shouldn’t be a huge concern in this one because Brady will light up that Ravens secondary that played way over their head last week. 

If had to pick another one it’d be pass rush because if we can’t take advantage of this patchwork OL with our front seven it will be disheartening.

Certainly in potential future match ups we’ll have to worry about those other things, but for now, just protect Tommy.