 | 2011 Season Preview: Baltimore Ravens
For the Ravens to take the next step, Joe Flacco must improve his performance when the spotlight shines brightest; the offensive line must stay healthy and powerful; some of the young defenders must raise their play; Ray Lewis, Ed Reed, and Terrell Suggs must remain dominant forces every week.
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| Where Will Ed Reed Finish Historically?
Defying age, Ed Reed continues to intercept passes at an impressive rate. Can he play long enough to eventually become the all-time leader?
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| Baltimore Ravens Season Preview 2010
The Ravens have an improved passing game to go with their excellent running offense and dominant defensive front seven, but their schedule will make homefield advantage in the playoffs difficult to achieve.
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| 2009 Season Preview: Baltimore Ravens
The Ravens have an all-world defense that shouldn't badly miss Rex Ryan and Bart Scott, along with a rising franchise QB in Joe Flacco, but there are just enough question marks to pit them out of the top-echelon of the AFC.
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| Baltimore Ravens Draft History
Ozzie Newsome has been the GM of the Baltimore Ravens since the middle of the 2002 season and they have fairly consistently had an excellent defense while the offense has been a continual work in progress.
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| Go Slow With Flacco
Baltimore wants Flacco to be their QB of the future. Except the Ravens feel they have no choice but to start him now because Boller and Smith are unavailable. Wrong!
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| 2008 Season Preview: Baltimore Ravens
These Ravens won?t be an easy team to beat or a fun team to play, but they?ll be real hard-pressed to win more than they lose. A 7-9 finish will mark what might be the end of the Ray Lewis era in Baltimore.
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| Ravens Pre-Draft Summit
Brian Billick is out and John Harbaugh is in, but will things change for the Ravens in 2008? Could Matt Ryan be their man in the draft?
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| 2007 Season Preview: Baltimore Ravens
In the last 4 seasons the Ravens have won 10,9,6, and 13 games. If you ignore the volatility of the last two seasons, you have a team with the talent and track record of a 9 or 10 win team. They've lost of talent in the off-season and also face a difficult schedule.
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| 2007 Draft Review: Baltimore Ravens
When you?re as close to the Super Bowl as these Ravens are, and almost all your starters are returning, it?s hard to find glaring weaknesses. Ben Grubbs and Marshall Yanda fill the biggest need, which is youth and physicality up front.
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| 2006 NFL Team Preview: Baltimore Ravens
There are two very distinct scenarios for the Ravens in 2006. They could very well discover the fountain of youth, win 10 games and be the team nobody wants to play in the playoffs. Or they could flounder, fracture, and crash to another last place finish in a tough AFC North.
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| Post-Draft Analysis: Letting Ray Lewis Play 'Freebird'
The Ravens didn?t go fancy in this draft, they just went for need. Although the names they took aren?t all that high-profile, other teams should have taken a clue from the Ravens? course. Trading up for Ngata probably wasn?t necessary but all the same, he?s going to be huge (literally) for the Ravens defense. Ngata is going to free up Ray Lewis more and you know that Baltimore is at their best when Ray Lewis is at his best.
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| NFL Draft Dissection 2006 ? Baltimore Ravens
There is still a need for a quarterback in Baltimore, but knowing how stubborn Brian Billick is, even if Jay Cutler is still around at thirteen, the Ravens seem destined to go with at least one more season of Kyle Boller. Don?t be surprised though if the Ravens go after a QB later in the first day. Surprisingly, it is the characteristically weak Ravens offense that has the least holes to fill, although admittedly there is a need for quality offensive linemen past Jonathan Ogden.
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| Ending Up Quite A Bit Short
If you could think of one word to describe the 2005 football season for the Baltimore Ravens it would be dissapointment. A team with expectations to possibly be a superbowl contender in Detroit, to even being picked to win it all by some football magazines failed to even come close.
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