Nobody in today's NFL has the stuff to beat the Ravens' defense, certainly not the New York Giants in two weeks. But they aren't. And even they would be busted up 75 percent of the time if they played Baltimore. Scorers are romanticized and the most feared men in pro basketball. That's where the Baltimore Ravens' defense is now, approaching that spot where they set your mayhem to music.
Defense is the only sure thing in pro football.
Billick knows it. Marvin Lewis know it, which is why he asks the offense for so little. If we can make one big play, the game is pretty much over. . . . It's like a boxer who says going into the ring, 'I'm gonna jab,' and it sounds like a real game plan until the guy hits him. And then Gannon got hit.