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View from the Other Side: Titans @ Ravens
By Jeff Fuqua
Oct 6, 2008 - 8:11:13 AM
Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun
The Ravens have a good defense, but they haven't earned the title of great in 2008.
Even though the Ravens held Tennessee to 210 yards of offense, including 47 rushing, great defenses don't allow teams to produce 11-play, 80-yard game-winning drives in the final minutes.
Great defenses don't get beat by a scrubby quarterback in Kerry Collins and second-string tight ends named Bo Scaife. Great defenses put pressure on quarterbacks or cause fumbles in crunch time.
When the game is on the line, great defenses make big plays, and the Ravens didn't come up with any in the final minutes of the game.
David Steele, Baltimore Sun
What are you madder about this morning? The injustice? Or the collapse?
Are you angrier at the officials who, by all accounts except their own, handed the Tennessee Titans new life on that fourth-quarter drive yesterday? Or the Ravens' defense, which let the teetering Titans - and their easy mark of a quarterback, the punch line from the Ravens' Super Bowl win eight years ago - turn that break into the game-winning touchdown and a 13-10 win?
Try both.
The Ravens sure are mad at both. They are sure they got jobbed twice on that one play, the Terrell Suggs blow-to-the-head personal foul that wasn't a blow to the head, and the false start that should have changed everything but changed absolutely nothing.
Jamison Hensley, Baltimore Sun
"From the way the game was going, I think the referee just probably wanted to feel important," Suggs said after watching the teams combine for 21 penalties. "If I did anything illegal, I will say that I left my team vulnerable. But to be 100 yards away - I was nowhere near his head. We hit arms. I was trying to block the ball.
"If I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of playing physical football. They said I hit him in the head, but I was nowhere near his head. In my six years of being an NFL player, I've never hit a quarterback in the head."
It appeared from replays that Suggs hit Collins on the right shoulder, near the helmet.
But Carollo, who made the call on the field, had a different look from his viewpoint.
"He got him on the side of the helmet, the right side of the helmet," said Carollo, who has officiated two Super Bowls in his 19 years in the NFL.
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