Has anybody ever heard two teams talk so much in their lives? Lets hope they hit as hard as they talk on Monday night.
Here's a snippet from Ray Lewis, who we know will hit and bring pain with both his mouth and his play:
"We're talking about the Jets like we're talking about the Saints... All that, 'We the Miami Heat of football.' If ya'll are the Miami Heat, we gotta be the Lakers. 'Cuz we're looking for multiple rings... You listen to all this yap, yap, yap, [but] the bottom line is you got to buckle up your chinstraps. The game ain't played through tongues.... Darrelle Revis puts his pants on one leg at a time. He's not a machine. He's a simple man, and he has to deal with everything that we're willing to bring to the table."
And Bart Scott, former Raven and current linebacker for the Jets, was quick to respond, dissing a recent commercial Ray Lewis shot for Old Spice:
"That's probably the worst commercial I've ever seen. It looked like some student shot it."
If the game is anywhere close to as entertaining as all of the talk leading up to it, it could be the game of the season in the NFL. It may turn out to be entertaining, but I'm predicting it won't even be close!
The Baltimore Ravens are absolutely stacked. 100% stacked. They are more stacked than Jose Canseco in an Oakland A's uniform back in 1990. You know the team is stacked when the biggest question mark is the defense. This is the same defense that features future Hall of Fame trash talking line backer Ray Lewis and maybe the best strong safety to ever play the game Ed Reed.
Absurd.
Joe Flacco is going to have a break out season. Its inevitable. Flacco has toys such as Ray Rice in the backfield, who managed to not only rush for over 1300 yards last season bought also caught 78 balls. And if Flacco wants to throw the ball down field, he can choose between newly acquired wideouts Anguan Boldin and T.J. Houshmandzadeh. Not a bad gig for a third year quarter back who doesn't know any better and doesn't do anything but make the playoffs.
But yet, the Jets are favored in this game and giving 2 points to the Ravens.
Yes, I know the Jets are at home and they are opening a new stadium and all of that, but this is just another distraction coupled with Hardknocks and the Darrele Revis holdout that the Jets just won't be able to overcome, at least not this early in the season.
I'm thinking this will be an old school type of whooping. A semi-surprise, as all the pundits rightfully have these teams among the best in the league, but few are going to say it will be this bad. I'm taking Baltimore and I don't need the points. Baltimore Ravens 34 New York Jets 17
Oh, and just for fun, here is a link to that ridiculous Ray Lewis Old Spice commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxqlw3cKZHA
Score was only 10-9, with the Ravens winning and making themanspeak.com 3-1 thus far, but this game wasn't close. Sure the score was close, but 1st downs were 20-6. Thats a blowout in my eyes.
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