as for Jimmy Smith, I expect he will show his inexperience but that doesn’t change the fact that his natural talent is off the charts and if need be Webb can cover Wallace (as he has in the past very effectively given his speed).

What no steelers fan will admit to is that Joe Flacco could easily turn in a 200+ yard multiple pass TD game against that secondary. Bryant McKinney may be new, but that hardly changes the fact that he is a talented Left Tackle, and Oher is a pro-bowl caliber tackle when he is on the right side. The middle of this Offensive line Feature 2 top 10 guards in Marshall Yanda and Ben Grubbs. At center Birk is a very good leader and was one of the best at his position last season.

On the outside Flacco has something in Evans he has never had before-a legitimate deep threat receiver. With Evans and Smith manning the 1 and 2 spots and Boldin working his magic over the middle I like this receiving corps to score against the Steelers poor secondary.

In the Superbowl Green Bay showed everyone the formula for beating Pitt. Since their strength lines in the Linebackers, make them take them off the field. Spread them out in 3 wide sets and force the Nickle package. Watch Palamoulu and exploit the likes of Gay, Taylor, and Mcfadden all the way to the endzone.

Yeah, but the game he's referring to is the 2009 AFC game won by the stillers 23-14.

Try to keep up & don't submit any resume's just yet ….

If you can honestly say that you think McClain is a better FB than Leach you know ZERO about football. All you had to do is look at the holes he was clearing out for Ray Rice in preseason despite our unsettled line.

If you think that Dawan Landry was underrated, then you are just plain stupid. The guy was the most overrated safety in the league and all because he played next to Ed Reed. He never could cover because of his lack of speed. What he did was hit, but after his neck injury he basically stopped tackling. Pollard is a huge upgrade because he can hit and isn’t playing scared. My one bitch about the Ravens is that they are starting Zibby over Haruki. I just think Haruki covers better than Zibby, but I can live with it.

This team got younger, faster and hungrier. And while you can never predict the Steelers games, all of the idiots who think this is going to be a blow out need to start taking their stelazine. They have to stop getting signals from the radio through the aluminum foil cap they made with the little antennae on the top.

And finally, to the Steelernation….. miscreant that says the same thing over and over and over. The last time I checked you lost the Superbowl to Greenbay. Do you realize just how stupid you sound saying the same trip over and over. It isn’t particularly funny. It doesn’t really bother us real Raven fans. All it does is give credence to the thought that there is too much inbreeding in western pennsylvania. Having read the posts of competent steeler fans and yes there are many of them I can not overgeneralize.

And this miscreant ladies and gentlemen is the prime example of what happens when the condom breaks, the diaphragm slips and mommy was too stupid to use a spermacide figuring that vaseline would work just as well.

“@ steelernationlolzatyouremptytrophycase6…”

The guy’s clearly a troll.
And you fell for it…again.

I agree with the poster above. I am generally a Ravens supporter but since they released Heap, let Dawan landry go (Who was VERY underrated), & traded McClain for Leach in FA I don’t see where they are going.

Yes the team appears to be getting young but the players it pays the most are going to goto waste of they don’t win NOW – Boldin, Evans (just traded for), Lewis, Reed, Suggs.

Pollard was hired for one reason only, taking out Ben

And just for the record, JIMMY WALKER is the single finest actor in television history!!!

every time you post on this site it reminds me once again one of the many reason I hate Steelers fans

Didn’t go so well.

I can’t help but feel that the front office has all but chalked this up as a “building year.”

Both the recieving and secondary corps have almost completely been gutted, and not necessarily in a reassuring way.

Jimmy Smith was a no brainer in the draft, but having seen what turns out to be mediocre talent and lack of cerebral ability, he’s a below average prospect. Pollard is a bruiser, basically a guy with a MLB mentality and secondary speed, with abysmal covering ability. And Ed and Ray arent getting any younger.

Cameron continues his dim-witted, predictable “run on first, run on second, pass on third and hope for the best, and punt” -approach to play calling. Flacco, after three years at the helm, seems to be playing even sloppier than before.

It just doesn’t seem to be a team with much promise this year. But who knows?

Jimmy’s getting angry, and Jimmy holds grudges!