RAVENS/PATRIOTS

Talk about an interesting matchup, high-powered offense vs. high-powered defense. The pinpoint accuracy of Tom Brady and a great receivers corp. pitted against the slam bang in your face defense of the Ravens. This should be one hell of a AFC Championship game!

The Ravens are going to Foxboro for the second time since the wild-card round of the playoffs two years ago, and are still as fierce as ever. Ray Lewis, Ed Reed, Anquan Boldin, Terrell Suggs, Ray Rice, and Lardarius Webbare are all heading to Foxboro, Mass., for a slugfest of a game.

Joe Flacco, QB

Of the two quarterbacks, Joe Flacco is the least dangerous. The 27 years old Flacco has started every game for Baltimore since 2008. He passed for 3,600 yards for the third straight season, with 20 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, is ranked in the bottom half of NFL quarterbacks with an 80.9 passer rating. He completed 57.6 percent. He threw for 176 yards and two touchdowns in Sunday's victory against the Texans.

Tom Brady, QB

Tom Brady is the third quarterback in NFL history to reach 5,000 passing yards in a season, and will be considered for the NFL MVP award. Brady finished 13-3, as the Patriots ranked second in the NFL in passing offense.

John Harbaugh, coach

Coach Harbaugh has led the Ravens against Patriots counterpart Bill Belichick twice, Harbaugh is 1-1, which includes a 33-14 victory in the 2009 wild-card round. Harbaugh is a defensive oriented coach who led the Ravens to an AFC North title with a 12-4 record. All four losses came on the road, where the Ravens will have to win in order to advance to the Super Bowl for the first time in more 11 years.

Bill Belichick, coach

Bill Belichick is 10th on the NFL's all-time career wins list, and has won three Super Bowl rings. He manages to stay competitive as the Patriots have won their division more often than not. His playoff record is 16-6!

Defense-

This is there one category the Ravens should be considered better it is in getting to the quarterback, with 29 sacks this year compared to 25 for the Patriots.

Offense-

The running game shows very little difference, with the Ravens holding a slight edge with Ray Lewis of about 50 rushes more. The Yards per carry run about the same, as do the running backs TD’s

Tight End-

Rob Gronkowski. Enough said.

Recievers-

The Raven’s Aquan Bolden and Torrey Smith are adequate to get the offense moving and perhaps scoring enough times until the defense comes out, but they don’t hold a candle to the likes of: Wes Welker and Dione Branch.

I personally can’t see this going anywhere but New England’s way, with a 2 TD win.