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Ravens run past sloppy Patriots 33-14

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP)—From the very first play, Ray Rice(notes) and the runningRavens made the team of the last decade look old and, oddly, inept.

Rice ran 83 yards for a touchdown with frigid fans still settling into theirseats, Tom Brady(notes) had three of his four turnovers in the first quarter andBaltimore knocked off New England 33-14 on Sunday in the AFC playoffs.

The Ravens (10-7) were only slight underdogs to the team that won threeSuper Bowls from 2002 through 2005. Now, if they beat Indianapolis next Saturdaynight, they’ll reach the AFC championship game for the second straight year as awild-card team.

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Not even Brady, the NFL Comeback Player of the Year, could overcome hismistakes and the absence of the league’s leading receiver Wes Welker(notes). Brady was23 of 42 for 154 yards two touchdowns passing and three interceptions.

The Patriots (10-7) tried to rev up the crowd by sending the injured Welkeronto the field on crutches for the opening coin toss. It didn’t work.

Six minutes into the game the Ravens were ahead 14-0, and the crowd wasbooing the team that hadn’t lost at home all season. By the end of the firstquarter it was 24-0.

The Patriots received the second-half kickoff trailing 24-7. But Brady threwhis third interception, matching his career playoff high, and Dawan Landry(notes)returned it 42 yards to set up Billy Cundiff’s(notes) 23-yard field goal that made it27-7.

Brady then threw his second touchdown pass to Julian Edelman(notes), Welker’sreplacement, covering 1 yard. But the Patriots’ defense struggled against theRavens runners. Willis McGahee(notes) added a 3-yard score with 10:32 left to cap thescoring.

The Ravens, who lost the AFC title game to Pittsburgh last year, will try tomake up for a 17-15 loss to the Colts in Baltimore on Nov. 22.

Since then, the Ravens are 5-2 after their three-man rushing attack of Rice,McGahee and Le’Ron McClain(notes) outran and overpowered the Patriots—gaining 236yards on the ground with Rice leading the way with 159. Rice ran for twotouchdowns and McGahee and McClain one each on the Gillette Stadium turf wherethe Patriots had been outstanding.

They were 8-0 this season, the only AFC team to go unbeaten at home. Bradywas 7-0 in playoff games at Gillette. And they had won their last 11 homeplayoff games there and at Foxborough Stadium, since their last loss in 1978.

And the Patriots had never lost to the Ravens, home or away, in their otherfive matchups.

The rout was nothing like the last big game between the teams when theRavens nearly ruined the Patriots’ quest for the first 16-0 regular-season inNFL history. The Patriots won that in Baltimore 27-24 in the 12th game of 2007on Brady’s touchdown pass to Jabar Gaffney(notes) with 44 seconds left.

On Sunday, the Ravens’ dominance on offense and defense left little room fora Patriots rally.

On defense, the Ravens pressured Brady into mistake after mistake, and notone penalty was called against the Ravens for being too physical with the NFL’s2007 MVP who missed all but the first quarter of last season’s opener with aleft knee injury. After the Patriots’ 27-21 win over the Ravens in Foxborough onOct. 4, Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis(notes) complained about roughing the passerpenalties that helped the Patriots on two touchdown drives.

Brady has played much of the time since then with injuries to his ribs and aright finger. That affected his accuracy, leading to an inconsistent season.Without Welker, the NFL leader with 123 catches, Brady was missing his mostreliable receiver who bailed him out time and time again.

Welker wouldn’t have kept the Patriots from falling behind 14-0.

Rice scored on the first offensive play and Brady fumbled the ball on thefourth play when he was sacked by Terrell Suggs(notes), who recovered it. Five playslater, all runs, McClain scored from 1 yard.

After the teams exchanged punts, Brady threw another interception when hewas pressured by Jarret Johnson(notes). Chris Carr(notes) caught it and the Ravens needed justsix plays for Rice to score from 1 yard.

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