Ravens or Pats: who will win?

[paracefan2002]

Who will end up in the Super Bowl, the Ravens or the Pats?
(I want the Ravens!!!! despite living near Philly, i LOVE the Ravens!!!!)

 

[cullenand]

My heart says the Ravens but my brain says the Patriots. I would love to see Ed Reed get a ring, but I don't think that the Ravens can beat the Patriots with Joe Flacco.

 

[paracefan2002]

we have a better defense, that AND Ray Rice! Plus, the Pats rank 31st in defensive YPG and passing YPG. booyah!

 

[Blitz24]

we have a better defense, that AND Ray Rice! Plus, the Pats rank 31st in defensive YPG and passing YPG. booyah!

I am not a Patriots fan but I wouldn't discount their offense. Brady, Welker and Gronkowski could run laps around Flacco, Boldin and Dickson.

 

[cullenand]

The YPG stats should not be used as a measure of a team's defense, you win games by scoring points not by accumulating yards. The Pat's defense only allows about 21 points per game, which is around 14th or 15th in the league. They also get a lot of turnovers, with 23 interceptions and 11 fumble recoveries. Their secondary allowed 26 passing touchdowns to 23 interceptions, pretty good TD to INT ratio if you ask me. The Raven's offense only scores about 23 points per game and Joe Flacco isn't exactly a great quarterback, I expect him to struggle. The Ravens defense hasn't yet been challenged with a great passing attack like the Patriots have. My guess is that the Patriots offense with Brady throwing to Welker, Gronk, and Hernandez will be too much for the Ravens defense. I think the Patriots will win 34-24.

P.S. I don't want the Patriots to win, I love the Ravens(mostly because of Ray Lewis and Ed Reed) but I'm thinking that the Patriots will be too much for them to handle.

 

[Patrick]

Patriots. Like others have said I think the Ravens won't be able to keep up with Tom Brady and company.

 

[Cowboys965]

Ravens!

But they and the Pats have to make it there first.

 

[hawkeye122]

I think the Patriots will go on to be in the Super Bowl for like the 9 Millionth time in the past 20 years..

 

[Spacegoat]

^God I hope not.

I think the Ravens defense can handle the Pats offense (though the Pats TE's are scary good). But Ray Rice needs to have a great game to take the pressure off Flacco and the passing game, if he doesn't than the Ravens offense will struggle and the Pats will win.

 

[GTMail]

If Flacco plays well which he should considering last weeks performance and "dogging" by other teammates, I think the Ravens will win.

 

[DA__dogg]

This has probably been stated on ESPN many times lol, if Suggs and Co. can get to Brady, that gives the Ravens a chance to run the ball and make some passes and chew the clock up. If the Ravens cannot knock Brady down then with the recievers he has he will pick apart the defense and score 30+ points. The pressure seems to be on the Ravens defense to control the game. Looking forward to this one for sure.

 

[paracefan2002]

oh well, there's next year"

 

[Slash]

IDK, I don't want either.