Defense Surrenders 21 4th Quarter Points
It was a game for the ages – an instant classic, a Christmas Day game that everyone across the country could enjoy, featuring two teams, two bitter rivals that during the season of giving, tried to wrestle from each other the title of the AFC North.
It was a game that in many ways was a microcosm of the Ravens season – a season during which they couldn’t put teams away thanks in part to a defense that was nothing more than an inviting Christmas door mat; nothing more than a marshmallow world in the winter, when Dean Pees’ unit gave up too much ground, and failed to protect a lead again and again.