Pro Bowl safety Ed Reed said Saturday that he’s “50-50″ on whether he will retire or return to the Baltimore Ravens for another NFL season.

Reed, 31, admits that Baltimore’s 20-3 loss to the Indianapolis Colts stings and that he doesn’t want to make an emotional decision. But after dealing with a serious neck injury for the past few seasons, Reed said that retirement is an option.

“It’s 50-50,” Reed said. “I got great doctors that I deal with. So I’m going to re-evaluate things and see how it goes. … At the end of the day, it’s my decision to play with injuries going forward for my career.”

Ravens No. 1 receiver Derrick Mason also said Saturday night that he’s undecided on his playing future.

Mason, 36, completed the final year of his contract with Baltimore and will become a free agent in March.

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Following a string of lackluster performances, the Ravens’ defensive backfield stepped up last week against the Denver Broncos to limit quarterback Kyle Orton to a 71.0 passer rating.

The unit will have a chance to demonstrate that such an outing was not an anomaly this weekend when Baltimore travels to Cincinnati to face Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer and his stable of talented wideouts.

The Bengals can trot four talented receivers out on the field, and each of them is capable of a big play, something that will test the Ravens’ depth.

“They have four wide receivers,” said cornerback Frank Walker, who was inactive for the Broncos game. “All of them are notables, and they can all hurt you. And they take pride in it. It’s not just a bunch of quiet receivers. They’re confident. They’re talking and walking.”


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Give Ravens cornerback Fabian Washington credit for his honesty, if nothing else. You think he played poorly against the Vikings on Sunday? So poorly that he absolutely deserved to be yanked in the third quarter and replaced by Frank Walker?


Washington agrees with you. In fact, he thought the Ravens’ coaching staff made the right move putting him on the bench.

“I was having a rough day, and I agree with them,” Washington said. “The coaching staff has to do what’s best for the team. … It wasn’t physical. It was just straight performance.”

Problem was, Walker really didn’t play much better. At the start of the fourth quarter, he committed a pass-interference penalty on Bernard Berrian that led to a touchdown, and when the Ravens took the lead with three minutes remaining, he got beaten on a long pass that led to the winning field goal.


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There’s only one thing left for the Baltimore Ravens to do after Cedric Benson ended their streak of 39 straight games without allowing a 100-yard rusher.

“Start another one. That’s what you do,” linebacker Ray Lewis said. “It’s not like a free throw, man. Some days you’re on, some days you’re going to miss. You just move on. The thing for us is to just go back and have fun.”

The Ravens’ next assignment — stopping Adrian Peterson of the unbeaten Minnesota Vikings — appears to be more dangerous than fun. If the Ravens don’t fix what went wrong in last week’s 17-14 loss to Cincinnati, they won’t be starting a new streak but rather will extend to two their run of permitting a 100-yard rusher.

“Adrian Peterson is just phenomenal,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. “He’s hard to attack, he’s amazingly fast. You’ve got to be completely sound in your run defense, and you’ve got to play great team run defense. You’ve got to run to the ball, you’ve got to play great team run defense.”

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In the final seconds of Sunday’s 17-14 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, the disgruntled voices emanating inside M&T Bank Stadium shouted “Refs, you [stink]” while a crowd of 71,161 waved their fingers at the officials.

The Ravens, however, pointed at only themselves.

Although they disagreed with three defensive penalties on the Bengals’ game-winning drive, the Ravens blamed themselves – not the officials – for losing their grip on first place in the AFC North.

The final, painful blow came when the Ravens let Cincinnati wide receiver Andre Caldwell run wide open for a 20-yard touchdown catch with 22 seconds left, capping one of the most excruciating defensive series in team history.


Click here to read the full article – By Jamison Hensley of The Baltimore Sun

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Baltimore coach John Harbaugh said yesterday he planned to submit film to the NFL office in New York of what he believes were questionable calls in the Ravens’ 27-21 loss to the Patriots Sunday at Gillette Stadium.


Harbaugh suggested Patriots quarterback Tom Brady got preferential treatment from the officiating crew over his own quarterback, Joe Flacco.

The Ravens were penalized twice for roughing the passer, each one helping set up a New England touchdown in the first half. The first went against lineman Haloti Ngata (for contact to the head), and the second went against linebacker Terrell Suggs (for contact to the knees).

The Patriots were credited with 10 quarterback hits and a pair of sacks, both by Mike Wright, who was penalized 15 yards for unnecessary roughness for a helmet-to-helmet blow on Flacco. Harbaugh said Flacco “got hit [six] different times hard, and there was one call.’’

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Following years of a dormant attack defined by conservative game plans and traditionally meager results, the Ravens’ offense has suddenly emerged as a potent early-season juggernaut.

The undefeated Ravens (3-0) rank second in the league in total offense after three games with an average of 430.3 yards per contest, eight yards less than the New Orleans Saints.

And they’ve been perfectly balanced, ranking fifth in passing offense with an average of 273.7 yards and fifth in rushing offense with a 156.7 average.

Their latest victim was the Cleveland Browns’ shoddy defense, piling up 479 yards of total offense during a 34-3 victory Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium.


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One concern heading into this season was how the small Ravens cornerbacks would hold up against bigger receivers.

After the San Diego Chargers put up 436 passing yards by using their size against the Ravens, some fans have begun to panic about cornerbacks Fabian Washington and Domonique Foxworth.

But history suggests the Ravens will bounce back.

The previous two biggest passing games against the Ravens – Vinny Testaverde’s 481 yards and Mark Brunell’s 386 yards – came in 2000, when they had one of the best defenses in NFL history.


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