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"It's not really about what plays we're running. We're just trying to go out there and effectively run the plays that are called."

Ravens jersey coach John Harbaugh said Monday that the Ravens will play their starters for at least the first half against the Giants this weekend, so the first-team offense will get a decent chunk of time to work any kinks out. Expect the Ravens' gameplan to again be pretty vanilla. Maybe French vanilla if they're feeling frisky.


"We're running our base offense," Flacco said. "Obviously, it's the preseason, so you don't want to show some things. And some things you're going to show because everybody knows you do them anyway.

A reporter, pointing out that the Ravens had executed a bunch of swing passes and screen plays to running backs, asked Flacco how much of the playbook the Ravens have busted out in preseason play.

"I think the feel is pretty good," Flacco said Tuesday. (I think wholesale Flacco jersey shrugged his shoulders as he started his answer, but he does that so often, I might just be imagining it.)


You, your Aunt Paula and Terry from Dundalk -- longtime listener, first-time caller -- might be panicking after the Ravens' first-team offense struggled to get in a rhythm in Saturday night's 23-3 win over the cheap Redskins jersey . But, predictably, quarterback Joe Flacco isn't freaking out about it.This is why people who think that the offense is "underperforming" in the pre-season should just start taking the short bus to work. Do they really think that the Ravens are taking the same offensive approach in the preseason that they will in the regular season? They haven't used Ray Rice at all, and they've clearly just been trying the same sorts of plays over again. That's what preseason is for: trying things. In the opener, we ran the same screen to McGahee three plays in a row. Think that will happen in the regular season? People need to get a life.