It's Thursday... which means that tomorrow is PURPLE FRIDAY! There is nothing I love more than sporting my Ravens jersey here at school in Pennsylvania, but this week it's even better. Lehigh University is situated right about an hour outside of Philly so I will be proudly rocking my black and purple here in Eagle nation!
My "Thought for Thursday" this week is one that I have definitely had before when it comes to our beloved Ravens. We have seen the situation play out far too many times before, have a killer game one week only to follow with a... less than stellar performance the next. The media has been incredibly complimentary of Flacco's performance in Monday night's game and I'll admit, he kind of surprised me too. One of the biggest questions going into this weekends matchup is whether or not this is the season that the Ravens can finally maintain consistency and play lights out football for 60 minutes, every week. After watching Monday's game, I have a lot of faith in this team. It seemed that they really made some fundamental changes on offense and the defense looked stronger than I thought they would minus T-Sizzle. This weekend, against Vick and the Eagles, Joe Flacco has an opportunity to prove to naysayers that he is an elite QB and is worthy of the praise he has been given this week. He also has the opportunity to do what he has done in the past... I won't go there.
I'm really excited to see what happens and can't wait to see the sad faces of all the Eagles fans showing up for class on Monday morning after we beat them on their own turf!
Feel like you might have missed some of the Ravens news today? Here are some interesting reads I stumbled across:
ESPN AFC North Blog: Consistency is Joe Flacco's next hurdle
NFL.com's Week 2 Predictions (Ravens 24, Eagles 20)
Ravens Focused On Keeping Momentum
Ravens Offense Dialing Up Deceptive Play Calling
And just because it's been a while... here is a newer Ray Lewis pump up video! My favorite line... "It's better to be respected than liked!"
