This is going to be a tough one. When the playoffs started, I felt like there was only one team to be worried about, and that was these very San Francisco 49ers. Then 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick ran wild on the Green Bay Packers and made a couple of their defensive players look like absolute fools (I think Clay Matthews is still trying to figure out which was Kaepernick ran), which made me all the more worried. Surely the Ravens defense won't be sacking this guy 9 times the way they did his predecessor at QB, Alex Smith, on Thanksgiving night last season...
But not quite worried enough to think the Ravens will actually lose this game. I think my boys will ride the hot hand of our QB, Joe Flacco, who's going to throw 3 touchdowns. Ray Rice won't have a great game, but he will at least score a TD himself. On the other side of the ball, the defense will have some trouble with Kaepernick's running and passing, but when it gets down to the nitty gritty, they will shut him down just like they did to Tom Brady and Peyton Manning (I won't count Andrew Luck , since he never really got anything going in the first place). Count on a pick interception from Ed Reed to help turn the tide, and perhaps a big play or two, and plenty of hard hitting from an angry Ray Lewis and his cohorts on defense to take some of the starch out of Kaepernick, Running Back Frank Gore, Tight End Vernon Davis, and the rest of the 49ers offense.
In the end, this is going to be a knock-down, drag out slugfest, but the RAVENS will come out on top, 34-24. We will leave this game as the CHAMPIONS! COUNT ON IT!
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