Baltimore Ravens: A Few Random Thoughts For The Upcoming Season

April 6, 2010   ·   Derek Kreiner   ·   Jump to comments

1) The Ravens need to get a higher seed to help playoff chances.  
It's been great that the Ravens have made the playoffs the last two years, but these fans deserve a home playoff game.
Add this fact to the seemingly inevitable match-ups with teams like Indy, Pittsburgh, and San Diego if the Ravens do make the playoffs.  With all three of those teams being primarily passing teams and Indy playing in a dome and San Diego playing in sunny and warm California, the January home field in Baltimore becomes huge. It's not the Ice Bowl, but it is certainly enough to have an effect on an opponent's passing game.
2)The Ravens offense is shaping up to be dangerous.
Go through your head and project realistic numbers for the top five Ravens receivers.
Here are my predictions, which may be optimistic in that they don't account for injury, like any pre-season predictions these are all on paper only.  Boldin 1100 yards, Mason 800 yards, Rice 700 yards, ...

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