Do you think the Ravens would have beaten the Giants?

[NewMarketSean]

Had we made it to the Super Bowl?

With our inability to stop the run against the Patriots, I think the Giants would have been effective on the ground and Eli would have been able to move the chains through the air.

On offense, I think we'd be able to score 20 points against their defense but with the Giants pass rush, and our OL, I think they could have forced Joe into making some costly mistakes.

I think the Ravens lose in a very similar game to the one that was played yesterday.

Your thoughts?

[ShaneDawg85]

Better over running game
Better receiving unit
Much better defensively
Good enough to neutralize our pass rush

Their record may have said 9-7, but the Giants probably would have won last night.

[flashjordnk]

I think the Ravens easily win this game. The Giants are substantially overrated.

Look at the Niners game as better evidence of the outcome of the game if you ask me. Without the fumbles by Williams the Niners have a good shot to win that game.

It's impossible to say how the game would have went, but I would have been very comfortable as a Ravens fan against that Giants team.

[GoldGlove21]

I think that the Giants front four would have given the Ravens fits. New England's passign game is obviously better than ours and the line has a lot to do with that. I think that we would have had a hard time offensively. With that said, our defense is better than the Patriots. I don't know who wins if the game was Baltimore vs. Giants, but I would have liked to find out.

[ChaosLex]

No, Jacobs and Bradshaw would've run all over us, IMO.

[ChaosLex]

[TGO]

I think it's pretty difficult to say what would have happened. Our offensive line would have had issues, but our offense plays a completely different style than NE does. NY's corners are generally not great (but not as bad as NE's) and I think we could have gotten Smith or Evans over the top for at least one big play. Rice is also better than NE's RBs and could have thrown off the rushing attack of the front four.

At the end of the day I think the Giants were on a roll and were going to beat anyone in their way yesterday, but you never know if maybe they game plan differently for a different team or maybe some of our guys would have taken it to the next level.

[russ snyder]

That's too funny! Oh, the question. I think the Giants would have beaten the Ravens. I believe that the Giants would have won the battle in the trenches. Plus, they proved that they were the hottest team in the playoffs. A bit too much for our boys I'm afraid.

[MarylandAaron]

Giants would've beaten us... Justin Tuck, Umenyiora, Pierre-Paul... would've destroyed Flacco. Pass rush would have leveled him.

[Slappy]

I watched the Redskins beat that team twice. Their offensive line is meh, their secondary is very meh. Their running game has been awful all year. It would have been a good game that could have went either way.

[ccbird]

Come on. In the NFL it so hard to tell. SO many different variables. I think we were better than the Pats and I think we matched up ok with the Giants. Not great but ok. I think it would have been a tight game. Again I'll say when was the last time we weren;t right there with a team in a huge playoff atmosphere game. It's really only happened once in Indy 3 years ago and they are a team that has always matched up well with us and generally owned us.

[primetime]

Had we made it to the Super Bowl?

With our inability to stop the run against the Patriots, I think the Giants would have been effective on the ground and Eli would have been able to move the chains through the air.

On offense, I think we'd be able to score 20 points against their defense but with the Giants pass rush, and our OL, I think they could have forced Joe into making some costly mistakes.

I think the Ravens lose in a very similar game to the one that was played yesterday.

Your thoughts?

I think we would have beat the Giants by double digits.

All the passes that Eli floated on Sunday night would've translated into a couple of picks for us because our secondary is FAR superior to that of the Patriots.

The only reason why the Patriots moved the ball on the ground is because they ran out of the shotgun/spread look, which left us vunerable in the middle. To be honest, we didn't even give the run a second thought vs. NE, their results against us would be irrelevant. We would be prepared for the Giants to run because even thought their rushing totals were poor this year, they at least try to run the ball.

Outside of the Giants front 4, their defense is pretty brutal. Plus, with aggressive D-ends that like to get up the field, that's the perfect recipe for Ray Rice to have a field day on cutback runs and in the screen game (if Cam would call any screens). Once the Rice is established, play action passes and rollouts come into play.

Let's not forget that the Giants were a 9-7 team, that barely made the playoffs, lost to the Seahawks at home, got swept by the Redskins and needed a blocked field goal to steal a game, after a timeout wiped out the kick that would've beat them.

The NY Giants were not a juggernaut by any stretch and not even close to the best team in the NFL this year. However, they are further proof that in the salary cap era of the NFL, the best team virtually never wins the Super Bowl. It's the team that gets hot at the right time and a little lucky at the right time.

I hope everyone remembers the chain of events this post season when they start complaining about the Ravens at some point next year. They'll lose a game that we think they shouldn't and we'll hear the usual "they don't deserve to win the Super Bowl" or "you can't lose to Team X and expect to win a championship" etc, etc, etc. All of that stuff is completely irrelevant.

Win enough games to get into the tournament and once you get there try not to turn the ball over and hope things break your way.