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Cheesehead
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I think it's another ugly win. The Ravens are struggling to run the ball with the third lowest YPC in the whole NFL. They're forced to stick with the run though to open up the deep ball. Flacco's much more effective throwing deep on about 30 throws a game than he is throwing it 50 times and trying to control the game with short throws. Our defense has been okay against inside runs and very good against outside runs thus far in the season. If the Jones/Hawk/Raji trio can stuff Rice in the middle, it'll allow Burnett to play back more and help Shields on the deep balls they'll throw to Torrey Smith, the Ravens only real offensive weapon at this point. If we can stop the inside runs, that alone will reduce the Ravens point potential by 10.
On the other side, the Ravens do actually have three solid corners and so I think they'll try a lot of nickel man coverage which will be responded to by the Packers with another high dosage of Eddie Lacy. I think it will be another 20+ carry day by Lacy, but this time I think he just slips over the 100 yrd mark. I do think though that our passing offense will continue to struggle to score TDs in the red zone and we'll be left with a bunch of FGs again.
Prediction: Packers 23, Ravens 14.
On the other side, the Ravens do actually have three solid corners and so I think they'll try a lot of nickel man coverage which will be responded to by the Packers with another high dosage of Eddie Lacy. I think it will be another 20+ carry day by Lacy, but this time I think he just slips over the 100 yrd mark. I do think though that our passing offense will continue to struggle to score TDs in the red zone and we'll be left with a bunch of FGs again.
Prediction: Packers 23, Ravens 14.