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Playoffs of the 2000s: Indianapolis vs. Baltimore

By R.J. White 1/31/2010 6:00 PM ET

Like the New Orleans-Minnesota matchup earlier in our Playoffs of the 2000s series, our next battle also replays a game that occurred in this year's actual playoffs. The similarities are striking -- the Baltimore Ravens come off a dominating first-round win on the road (against New England this year and against Denver in our fictional playoffs) to face the top-seeded Indianapolis Colts. The Colts shut the Ravens down a few weeks ago; will they do it again here?

The Colts' Super Bowl opponent this season -- the New Orleans Saints -- already advanced to their conference championship game in our decade-long look at the league's best playoff teams. Are the two teams destined to square off in our mock finale, as they will in Miami?
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Mason Likely to Return to Ravens

By JJ Cooper 1/31/2010 1:59 PM ET

It appears the Ravens will head into the offseason with an ugly situation at wide receiver, which is an improvement.

Lost in the aftermath of Ed Reed's announcement that he was 50-50 on returning or retiring was Derrick Mason's similar pronouncements. Reed's loss may have been crushing for the Ravens, but Mason's loss would leave the Ravens without one competent receiver.

Now Mason apparently is leaning toward playing another year. He's an unrestricted free agent, but considering his familiarity with the Ravens' offense and his ties to the organization, it's likely that he'll be back in Baltimore next season.
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Playoffs of the 2000s: Denver vs. Baltimore

By R.J. White 1/27/2010 1:00 PM ET

We're back with the third wild-card game from our Playoffs of the 2000s series. This game includes a team that's struggled to get back to the playoffs lately and a team that squeaked into this year's playoffs, won a road game in the first round, and ultimately fell to AFC champion Indianapolis.

We drew our playoff teams from JJ Cooper's NFL Standings for the Decade article that ran a few weeks back on this site. If you focus on recent history, you would probably imagine that San Diego would have came away as the winner in the AFC West, but think again. Denver was good enough in the early part of the decade that they posted eight more wins than the Chargers, despite San Diego's huge run at the end of this season, the last in the 2000s.
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Raiders Hire Hue Jackson as Coordinator

By Michael David Smith 1/26/2010 10:07 AM ET

The Oakland Raiders have reportedly hired Hue Jackson as their offensive coordinator, even as the team refuses to confirm that head coach Tom Cable will return for the 2010 season.

ESPN's Michael Smith and Fox Sports' Jay Glazer are both reporting that Jackson, previously the Baltimore Ravens' quarterbacks coach, interviewed with Raiders owner Al Davis last week and agreed to run the team's offense.
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Zebra Report: Rice's Low Block, Brooking's Taunting and More

By Matt Snyder 1/20/2010 9:00 AM ET


Zebra Report is FanHouse's analysis of actual NFL rules and how they are to be applied ... because most fans think they could do a better job than the NFL officials, yet definitely could not. Click here for an introduction as to how we do things.

Though this will hardly surprise long-time readers, I still have to point out the four divisional playoff games from this past weekend were void of game-changing controversial calls. Whenever you can emerge from a series of playoff games without hearing something lame like "the referees cost ____ the game!" it's a good thing for all of us.

Obviously, that doesn't mean there were no calls needing clarification or even a handful of missed calls. That's the nature of the beast. Again, when each team is perfect, we can start to expect the officials to be perfect. Until then, such is life watching a game played and officiated by humans.
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Manning's Legacy Needs Another Title

By Terence Moore 1/17/2010 1:46 AM ET

Peyton ManningINDIANAPOLIS -- Until Peyton Manning proves that Vince Lombardi trophy he hoisted after the 2006 season wasn't a fluke, it really was. So his Indianapolis Colts must win it all come February in Miami, which means he has to get them that far during an NFL season for only the second time in his 12-year career.

Right now, Manning isn't even the old John Elway. That one reached three Super Bowls, even though he lost all of them. Instead, Manning is the other John Elway, who won his first world championship over Green Bay after some questionable decisions down the stretch by Packers coach Mike Holmgren. It all kept Elway as a tarnished golden boy for the Denver Broncos, until he led the Broncos to another world championship with a victory over the Atlanta Falcons.

Manning has to win another Super Bowl, all right. Like now. And I hear what you're saying: why the urgency for Archie's middle and most gifted son? He's only 33, and he never misses games. Not only that, unless he is zapped away toward the heavens by a pack of little green men, he'll be around the NFL a while.

It's just that you never know.
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Ed Reed Says He's '50-50' on Retirement

By Chris Burke 1/17/2010 1:14 AM ET

Ed ReedFollowing Baltimore's 20-3 playoff loss to Indianapolis on Saturday, star Ravens safety Ed Reed said he's "50-50" on the possibility of retiring and will give it serious consideration in the offseason.

Reed has dealt with painful neck and shoulder injuries in recent seasons, and he missed four games in 2009 with a groin injury.

"At the end of the day it's my decision to play with injuries going forward in my career," Reed told reporters. "We'll see, man. I take good advice from my doctors. It's been great up to this point, fighting through, and I wanted to battle through this year, even with all the injuries I had last year and the injuries I had this year.
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Defense Carries Colts Past Baltimore

By FanHouse Newswire 1/16/2010 11:25 PM ET

Gary BrackettINDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- There's a price to pay for keeping the ball out of Peyton Manning's hands.

Once he gets it, he doesn't give it back - at least not until he's gotten the Indianapolis Colts plenty of points and a playoff win.

In his first game since winning an unprecedented fourth NFL MVP award, Manning threw for two touchdowns Saturday night in a 20-3 victory over the Baltimore Ravens. The Colts will host the AFC championship next Sunday against San Diego or the New York Jets.

"Whoever it is, we know it's going to be a challenge and we have to step it up another notch,'' coach Jim Caldwell said.
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The Once-Over: Divisional Round

By Knox Bardeen 1/16/2010 11:30 AM ET

Antonio GatesWith attention spans dwindling, you may want to forgo full game-by-game previews of the Divisional Round of the Playoffs and get just the essentials you need to know about every contest this glorious NFL weekend. We call it The Once-Over.

The Saturday Games

Arizona (11-6) at New Orleans(13-3): If you don't think that these teams will plaster a ton of points on the scoreboard on Saturday, you haven't been watching the Cardinals or the Saints play lately. Arizona dropped 51 points on a good Green Bay defense last week and could very well do the same to the Saints. Anquan Boldin may not play in the game, which could hurt the team, but the key on Saturday lies in how well Beanie Wells and Tim Hightower run the ball. Teams that run the ball successfully against New Orleans tend to fare well.
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FanHouse Preview: Ravens at Colts

By Matt Snyder 1/15/2010 1:30 PM ET

Peyton Manning Ray LewisContinuing our full coverage of the playoffs, NFL FanHouse breaks down each game in the divisional round.

The Baltimore Ravens head to Indianapolis this weekend with a chance to knock off the No. 1 AFC seed Colts. They enter Indy with a swagger, having torn up the Patriots in New England last week, 33-14. Meanwhile, the Colts haven't won a game since December 17, but racked up 14 of them through that date.

The two teams did square off earlier in the season, with the Colts winning 17-15 in Baltimore in late November. There were some items of interest coming from that game. First of all, the Colts kept the Ravens out of the end zone. Peyton Manning connected on 22-of-31 passes for 299 yards, but he also threw two interceptions. The Ravens didn't run the ball as many times as they passed it, but Ray Rice and Derrick Mason had their way with the Colts through the air. The Ravens had a chance to win the game, but Gary Brackett's interception of Joe Flacco thwarted the Ravens' final drive. Of course, the Colts also missed an opportunity earlier in the game when Tom Santi fumbled on the Ravens 4.
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