'With Flacco playing his first regular-season game since suffering a major knee injury last season, the Ravens are understandably nervous about exposing him to contact. They're going to focus their pass-protection attention on Jerry Hughes, so it is incumbent on others within the front seven to take advantage of presumably easier pathways to the backfield. Lorenzo Alexander can't simply take up space at the other outside linebacker spot. Preston Brown needs to show some results from all of that offseason and preseason work he has done on improving his blitzing.'