Because they won-- no, survived a playoff game against a wild card team, they've rid themselves of all doubt? You might be one of the most arrogant fans I know considering your team has accomplished so little.
I'm not even going to bother with breaking down each and every one of the points you've made, because while they may come into play, you clearly just don't understand football. It is a one time, 3 hour slugfest that more often than not results in one team simply overpowering the other. Baltimore is going to come in to New England next weekend and win. Joe Flacco will outplay Tom Brady again. The Ravens will have much more success stopping your running game than Houston because, well gee, Baltimore has BETTER PLAYERS in their front 7 than that injury plagued Houston front did. Bradie James was once a stud, and he's still damn good, but he's not Ray Lewis. JJ Watt is the only player across that front 7 who's definitively better than his Ravens counterpart. Ellerbe's been a beast. Ngata is playing. Ray and Suggs are back. Terrance Cody's coming around. Paul Kruger has been nice during this playoff run.
So, the first half had nothing to do with how good the Falcons played, but the second half was all about how terrible we were??? Get the fuck out of here. We didn't get our "shit kicked". Seattle made halftime adjustments while we went back to conservative play-calling. We didn't even pull out our no-huddle offense the entire game. We came in with a great offensive and defensive plan and shutout Seattle in the first half, and unlike you, I'll give credit where credit is due and say Seattle did a good job coming back into the game, but one interception and 2 3-and outs (after not having any the entire game) does not qualify as getting our "shit kicked", especially since we won the game.
Comparing our regular season stats to San Frans postseason stats...nice
I am by no means an arrogant fan. Everyone continues to diminish my team's successes, and I'm sick of it. Saying we "survived" a playoff game is absolutely false and quite ridiculous. We WON the game, plain and simple. Matt Ryan came out with 30 seconds left in the game and set up the field position for Matt Bryant to WIN the game, not survive the game. It's bullshit remarks like that that cause me to even say anything. Having confidence in my team doesn't mean I'm arrogant. I told you guys last week when everyone doubted the Falcons we would win the game, but it'd be a battle, and I'm right. I know my team's strengths and weaknesses, I know how they matchup, which is simply why I'm more than confident we can get a win. Look back at the regular season, we have 7 4th quarter comebacks. We're not gonna go on the field and simply blowout an opponent. That's just not the type of team we are, especially not in the playoffs. We play hard fought games and have that extra push to come out with the win. I don't care if you think we deserved to win, because the only team that deserved to win is the one that did win, it's as simple as that.
Seriously?
I'm not an anti Patriots fan lol I just think you're way too overconfident about this game. The Ravens beat the Patriots earlier in the year, there's no way the spread should be 9.5. Factor in that the Ravens have outplayed the Patriots the last two times they've met in the playoffs (yes they did last year and if you try to deny it you're the world's biggest homer), both games being in Gilette stadium mind you, and I see absolutely zero reason why the spread is so big. If you really think just a straight up "points average per game" is a reason why the Patriots will cover, you're blind.
You think the Ravens are MORE likely to win at New England, the number one scoring offense who has a better scoring defense than the Ravens? We have a significant advantage in our pace, which the old, big bodied Ravens won't be able to handle at all. 174 snaps in two games is ridiculous, and then they face the fastest team in the league? You are actually crazy if you think they have better odds of beating the Patriots, especially if your reasoning is because you think Ray Lewis makes that much of a difference.
