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I just watched the special on the 2000 Ravens. As great as the defense was that year, the offense was awful for the first half of the season before Dilfer got in. They went all of October without scoring an offensive TD and still won 2 games out of 5. With Dilfer they scored fewer than 24 points 2 out of 11 games.
Was looking at the stats and the 2011 defense gave up only 655 more yards than the 2000 defense and only 143 more on passing (512 more rush yards) They gave up the same # of passing TDs (11) but 5 more TDs than 2000 (10-5). 2000 had more Ints though (23-15), but the net yards per pass attempt was basically the same (5.4 vs 5.3 this year). Ravens had more sacks this year (48-35) and more forced fumbles (23-19) I think what Im trying to say here is that the Ravens pass defense this year is as good as the pass defense was in 2000, and while they were no where close to the rush defense of 2000, it was still ok. I dont think the worse run defense will matter much in NE as I dont see them running the ball very much.
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