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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Gary Kubiak knows all about the Baltimore Ravens. They know all about him.
"Everyone knows what kind of team we are," said running back Justin Forsett, who ran for a career-high 1,266 yards in 2014. "We have an identity of being a run-first team, a team that's physical — smash-mouth football. We can't worry about if (Kubiak) knows a little bit of what we do. We've just got to execute."
Before the game, many of the Ravens will make a point of shaking hands with Kubiak and Rick Dennison, now Denver's offensive coordinator after serving as Baltimore's quarterbacks coach in 2014.
Familiarity between a coach and his former team can be intriguing, but usually does not factor in the outcome.
"You can say he has the advantage against us because he was here all last year and knows the defense we run," cornerback Jimmy Smith said. "But we know what he runs. It's going to come down to the players on Sunday."
Kubiak accepted the position,Supply NFL Jerseys, and he will make his debut Sunday against, of course, Baltimore.
Kubiak spent the 2014 season as offensive coordinator of the Ravens. Not long after he emphatically insisted that he would be staying in Baltimore, perhaps the only job that could have lured him away became available: head coach of Denver,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, where he spent most of his playing career.
With Kubiak calling the shots, the Ravens set franchise records last season in points (409) and yardage (5,838). They also rang up 30 points in a playoff win at Pittsburgh before coming up short in a 35-31 loss at New England.
"It won't be weird. I'll go say hi to those guys," Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco said. "I had a great relationship with all of them. I'll probably just go up to them and joke around about something,Wholesale China Jerseys, nothing probably too serious."
"We had some success last year, but nothing was circled," Forsett said. "It was circled because it's Week 1. We're preparing for Week 1 all through the offseason. There's no added extra value on coach Kube being there or not. We all have our relationships with him, but there's none of the extra stuff going on."
Kubiak also knows a quite bit about the Baltimore defense after working against the unit in practice last year,Wholesale NFL Jerseys.
This game is important to the Ravens because it's the first one, not because Kubiak will be on the opposite sideline.
Probably it doesn't.
"I think those things are overrated in our business,Cheap NFL Jerseys," Kubiak said. "Coaches move around in this league and players move around. There's a lot of people familiar with each other."
Marc Trestman has taken over as Baltimore's offensive coordinator,Wholesale Basketball Jerseys, but the unit's identity remains the same.
Maybe it matters.
"It's funny how that works," Kubiak said Wednesday. |
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