[Sylvanfan]

Just yesterday, a beat reporter from Baltimore strongly said Suggs would not play, and said he's at 80%. Said he still had a ways to go to get in football shape. I guess we'll see how much he plays. Most who follow the Ravens daily suggest that Ladarius Webb will be missed a lot more than Ray Lewis. Essentially teams are able to run right at Ray Lewis, and be successful doing it. He's still a great leader, but on the field he's no longer playing near the level people think.

This is an interesting week. Ngata is banged up, and Suggs won't be 100%, and the best tackler in their secondary isn't there. Can the next man up still do the job? The really good NFL teams always seem to have depth where when a key player goes down, the next guy in can do the job. But often, it affects special teams, as a guy who used to focus solely on those duties, is now preparing to play 60 snaps on defence, and pushing the special teams duty to the back burner, or being replaced by a lesser player onthat unit.