A New Career Opportunity

Hey there gents. Do you have an interest in football? Tired of whiny diva receivers talking smack during Raven games? Want to have a season ending injury after you only get two games under your belt? Perhaps being in the Ravens secondary is for you!

Don't worry, you don't have to actually be decent. I mean it would be awesome if you could even cover Miles Austin. Screw it, just cover the guy for four to six seconds. It is all we need for Terrell Suggs and/or Elvis Dumervil to reak havoc in the backfield. The pass rush has saved our depleted secondary for most of the season.

It seems crazy to have to recap all of the fallen. Lardarius Webb was first on the list with his back issues, he returns only to have Jimmy Smith suffer a season ending foot injury a mere two weeks after Webb's return. Asa Jackson on two separate occasions has been injured (his latest knee injury has shut down his season) but in his short time he was far better than released players like Chykie Brown or Dominique Franks. Not to mention rookie safety Terrance Brooks also leaving Sunday's game with a season ending knee injury. We need to find a different adjective to describe this secondary other than depleted, it is far worse than that. All the injuries put recently acquired vet Antoine Cason and Rashaan Melvin (who?) into starting roles.

I'm Case Keenum, who the hell are you?

The good news is that Denver or New England aren't on the schedule (yet) so they get a couple weeks to hopefully gel together (and not die or get injured in the process) against some unproven QBs. Anyone curious what had happened to Case Keenum? No? His mom didn't even know he was still playing in the NFL. Keenum is sounding like the sacrificial lamb to the Ravens powerful defensive front this week mostly due to his familiarity with coach Bill O'Brien's system in Houston. Our biggest concern lies in the backfield with Arian Foster. Against strong rush defenses(which he hasn't faced many especially playing in the AFC South) though Foster has struggled. He is still their best weapon on offense totaling  nearly five yards per rush (1,127 yds total) with eight TDs, not to mention his 8.1 yards per reception with four TDs.

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Oh Watts that? DidJJa say something? Watts this about weapons on the Texans? Honestly if we can control J.J. Watt we should be fine on offense. The Texans aren't scaring anyone with their mediocre defense so allowing Watt to get sacks but not strip fumblerooski ones(you know, the fumbles that turn into defensive TDs) would be fine. I mean, the guy is a straight up beast. He's going to get his, hopefully "his" are limited. Who the hell knows who will be in our backfield to assist in blocking that behemoth. Forsett claims this is the best he has felt on a Wednesday in weeks (per Jerry Coleman's report) and Taliaferro is now done for the season.

The good news out of Ravens camp is that Bernard Pierce(along with our other backs) is showing up lately, mostly toward the end of games. So come crunch time when we need to lock it down the backs are getting it done. A few games against crappy (unproven I guess is more PC) QBs should help this secondary get it together for a playoff run. Once their in the tourney, it's anyone's game.