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It's a little bit zany to ask the question, but it's on the minds of a lot of Ravens fans in the wake of the takedown of the New England Patriots by the New York Giants in SB 46: Could the Ravens have shut down the Giants and Eli Manning?We'll never know the answer, although in 2012 we'll get a chance to speculate as the NFC East divisional teams dovetail into the Ravens' regular schedule...On the brighter side, it was nice to see Matt Birk, the Ravens veteran center, honored at the Super Bowl for his NFL Man of the Year Award, based largely on his literacy project and foundation for kids... Also, Terrell Suggs received a Defensive Player of the Year award. to which Suggs humorously responded, "I want to thank my parents for going through with it..."As Sarah Ellison of BalltimoreRavens.com astutely reported, when the confetti dropped on Eli Manning and the New York Giants after their Super Bowl XLVI victory, you weren’t alone if you were imagining Joe F...
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