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Eyeing Colts opponents: Baltimore Ravens 2018 season preview Each SB Nation NFL writing team examined their respective franchise and put together a brief season preview. These stories are intended to help explain to fans of other teams some of the most important topics and issues facing each NFL team as the 2018 NFL Season approaches. Today Youth Chester Rogers Jersey , we focus on the Baltimore Ravens, who the Colts will meet Monday night for their second preseason game. All answers were provided by Baltimore Beatdown.Notable free agent additionsWR Michael Crabtree, WR Willie Snead IV, WR John Brown, QB Robert Griffin IIIOver / under: 8 wins -- Over John Harbaugh’s Ravens have only gone under eight wins once in ten years. The one outlier was Joe Flacco suffering a season-ending ACL-tear. The team’s roster looks stronger than in recent years, also.Rookie I’m most excited about Hard to not say Lamar Jackson due to his position and play from college, but I’ll go with TE Hayden Hurst. He’s a massive target for Joe Flacco and Hurst’s hands are trustworthy. Joe often works tight ends into the system as we saw with Dennis Pitta and Benjamin Watson. I see no change coming with the first-round pick.Best position battle heading into camp The right tackle position is up for grabs after the Ravens declined Austin Howard’s option. Both James Hurst and Orlando Brown Jr. are capable of winning the starting job and I’m excited to see the battle unfold.Biggest storyline heading into camp No contest, it’s the ‘quarterback competition’ between Joe Flacco and Lamar Jackson. It’s not really a story though, as Joe is ahead of Jackson in quality of play and from the owner to the coaching staff they’ve all stated Joe is the starter.Under-the-radar storyline heading into camp How can the offensive line replace key losses at both center and right tackle? The Ravens declined Austin Howard’s option and Ryan Jensen signed a big deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Both were quality starters.Notable injuries heading into training campI was planning on this being centered around Jimmy Smith and his Achilles tear, but he’s already participating in practice only seven months after the non-contact injury. Instead, the most notable is Marshal Yanda, but even head coach John Harbaugh said, “If we were playing a game http://www.thecoltsfootballauthentic.co … -authentic , he probably could play -- as tough as he is.”A Colts PerspectiveThe Colts don’t face the Ravens during the 2018 regular season. This likely played a role in getting both franchises to agree to practice together prior to Monday night’s game. Still, there will always be a rivalry between the two team fan bases rooted in the circumstances that led to the Colts departing Baltimore.Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome has started to show signs of fallibility. Baltimore’s long run as one of the most dominant teams in the NFL, with one of the most physical defenses of the 2000s, faded five years ago. The dominant running game that previously featured Ray Rice, has struggled to find a new bell cow back who can consistently carry the load. Joe Flacco was unable to use his Super Bowl MVP nod and performance as a springboard for his career. He remains an average NFL signal caller who is known for hitting on some deep plays but lacking in consistency. His TD to INT ratio has been really bad other than his 2014 season — 71:62 in years 2013, 2015-2017 | 27:12 in 2014.Flacco’s uncertain future and inability to live up to the monster contract offer he received after the Ravens won the Super Bowl has finally resulted in some real pressure at the spot. Baltimore brought in RGIII via free agency and traded up to draft Lamar Jackson at the bottom of the first round in the 2018 NFL Draft. If Flacco gets the Ravens off to a slow start, Newsome might start looking toward the future and give others a chance. Could we see another Eli Manning “situation” where a veteran quarterback gets benched in the middle of the year?Of course, the bigger news as it relates to Monday night’s game is that the Colts and Ravens got into an altercation during group practices over the weekend. It will be worth watching how the teams respond during a night game in live game action. We always hope for both teams to play a clean game and to escape the week injury free so hopefully the extra adrenaline doesn’t lead to retaliation or cheap shots from either team.It will also be worth seeing a lot of the Colts young players after another week of training camp practice. This will be their first chance to face opponents who they have already had a chance to work against in practice. Which team and coaching staff will use those repetitions to come out on top? Andrew Luck keeps checking off the boxes.On Saturday, he got the Indianapolis Colts' offense in sync, bounced back from yet another big hit and led them to a go-ahead touchdown before leaving in the second quarter.Yes, five days after a mediocre performance in his first home start in more than 19 months, Luck looked much sharper as the Colts hung on for a 23-17 victory over San Francisco."I really wanted to feel like we created some type of rhythm and we did," he said. "We put a sustained drive together Womens Margus Hunt Jersey , and the other ones, we made some mistakes. But getting in rhythm was something I really wanted to see."He was in good company.Coach Frank Reich and Colts fans also wanted to see improvement in what's likely Luck's final action of the preseason.The results were better.Luck scrambled for a 15-yard run on third-and-13 then threw a 15-yard TD pass to a leaping Eric Ebron on the next play to give Indy a 7-3 lead midway with 8:47 left in the first half. He finished 8 of 10 with 90 yards and took one sack.Christine Michael's 1-yard TD plunge late in the third quarter made it 14-9, a lead Indy never relinquished.Otherwise, it was a tough day for the Colts, who struggled to establish the run — and couldn't stop San Francisco's physical ground game in the first half."They did a nice job running the ball and just like offensively in the run game, we need to improve defensively in the run game," Reich said after his defense allowed 126 yards rushing.Somehow, the Colts kept the 49ers out of the end zone until the final minutes and took advantage of Jacoby Brissett's 53-yard pass play to Seantavius Jones late in the third quarter. Two plays later, Michael scored to give Indy a 14-9 lead.It was enough to give Luck his first home win since Jan. 1, 2017.Jimmy Garoppolo, meanwhile, couldn't get the ball into the end zone. He was 9 of 19 for 135 yards, leading the 49ers to only two field goals before departing in the third quarter. Alfred Morris carried 17 times for 84 yards Youth Joe Haeg Jersey , doing the bulk of his work in the first half.Former Colts receiver Pierre Garcon had two catches for 62 yards."We ran the ball very well, but I was just saying this to the team — running the ball well doesn't (automatically) get you points," 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said. "We were 0 for 3 in the red zone."Robbie Gould's 32-yard field goal gave the 49ers a 9-7 lead late in the third quarter.But all San Francisco could manage the rest of the game was Nick Mullens' 1-yard TD run and Jeremy McNichols' 2-point conversion run with 4:07 left, spoiling the return of cornerback Richard Sherman ."There were some good plays, there were some other plays I felt rusty on, but overall I felt pretty good," said Sherman, who is coming back from a torn Achilles tendon. "I would have preferred (defending a deep ball)."Ebron caught five passes for 54 yards for Indy, which got starting safety Malik Hooker back. He missed the second half of his rookie season after tearing two ligaments in his right knee.NATIONAL ANTHEMWhen the 49ers visited Indianapolis in October, nearly two dozen players demonstrated by kneeling during the national anthem — prompting Vice President Mike Pence to walk out of Lucas Oil Stadium. This time, nobody took a knee while the anthem played. The only demonstration came from San Francisco receiver Marquise Goodwin, who raised his fist again.INJURIES49ers: Linebacker Reuben Foster did not return after being diagnosed with a concussion in the third quarter, and cornerback Jimmie Ward left in the first half with a quadriceps injury. Shanahan said he doesn't expect to Foster in the preseason finale. Receiver Marquise Goodwin also left in the first half with a hand injury but returned. San Francisco played without running backs Jerick McKinnon (knee) Womens Jabaal Sheard Jersey , Matt Breida (shoulder) and Joe Williams (ribs) or backup offensive linemen Erik Magnuson (hamstring) and Gary Gilliam.Colts: Defensive end John Simon (neck), safety Ronald Martin (shoulder), offensive lineman Denzelle Good (knee) and safety T.J. Green (hamstring) all left in the second half. None of those four retuned. Indy was already missing cornerbacks Quincy Wilson (hand) and Nate Hairston (hamstring), linebacker Anthony Walker (groin), defensive linemen Denico Autry (lower leg) and Tyquan Lewis (foot), running backs Marlon Mack (hamstring), Robert Turbin (ankle), newly acquired back Brandon Oliver and Tion Green, and receivers James Wright (knee) and K.J. Brent (knee).UP NEXT49ers: Wrap up the preseason at home Thursday against the Los Angeles Chargers.Colts: Close out the preseason at Cincinnati.