Last offseason, the focus was on the defense.
The Ravens re-signed Brandon Williams, inked the market’s top safety in Tony Jefferson and scooped up veteran cornerback Brandon Carr. Their first four picks in the draft were all defense – cornerback, outside linebacker, defensive end, outside linebacker.
“We thought we had taken a ‘B-plus’ and turned it into an ‘A’ by concentrating the early rounds on defense,” Owner Steve Bisciotti said last week. “And it did until a couple fateful plays and drives.”
The Ravens defense was really good for much of the season.