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The Chatter

Our Prediction for Sunday: Luck Runs Out for Indy

Ravens’s defense faces game’s top young quarterback on the road Sunday.

By Ron Cassie | October 3, 2014, 10:10 am

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Yes, it is still weird to see those colors and our old horseshoe on another team. Some things you never quite get over. But we love the Ravens. We really do. That said, SOMEONE NEEDS TO STOP the Indianapolis and national media (here, here, and here) from placing Andrew Luck in the “pantheon” of great “Colts” quarterbacks, alongside Peyton Manning and John Unitas. Luck and Manning play the same position as Johnny U. and they play it well. But they never played for the same team. The football team that plays its home games at Lucas Oil Stadium isn’t Baltimore. Period.

And, yeh, by the way, Baltimore had another pretty damn fine quarterback named Bert Jones, who led the Baltimore Colts to three consecutive AFC East Titles. No one in Indianapolis ever heard of Bert Jones, apparently.

Okay, we’re done now.

Here’s three reasons why the Ravens are going to beat the snot out of Indianapolis this weekend.

1. Andrew Luck’s luck is about to change: The third-year QB is not facing the Jacksonville Jaguars or Tennessee Titans. The Ravens have allowed the second fewest TDs in the league this year. Our front seven is big and tough and will be a load for Indianapolis to deal with. Courtney Upshaw, Pernell McPhee, Brandon Williams, and C.J. Mosley are young and getting better.

2. We will move the chains and score: Guess what? We’ve got a quarterback in his prime, who has won a Super Bowl. And he’s playing well and has a fine crew of offensive weapons. The Ravens rank 6th in total yards and the best way to stop Luck remains to keep him off the field.

3. Indianapolis just lost their starting safety on top of losing their best pass rusher: LaRon Landry, the team’s second-leading tackler, has been suspended for four games for games for using PEDs and Indianapolis isn’t exactly deep at the position—his replacement is essentially a special teams player. This is on top of news that Indianapolis’s top pass rusher, Robert Mathis, recently tore his Achilles while training off-site during his four-game PED suspension and now will miss the rest of the season.