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Changes improve offense, hurt defense

By AJ Mass
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Last year at this time, the fear was that a team coming off of a 5-11 season and hanging its hopes on an inexperienced quarterback would be floundering at the bottom of the AFC North. Of course, that quarterback looked like it was going to be Troy Smith, but after he came down with an extreme case of tonsillitis in the preseason, it was rookie Joe Flacco who was thrust into the huddle. But a funny thing happened on the way to the cellar … the Ravens started winning. They went 11-5, nearly ma ...

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