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(09-06-2024, 10:55 PM)Synric Wrote: There's many many quotes from a multitude of different players that say the same thing playing in the AFC North is different... more physical, more violent.

And the physical makeup of the Teams confirm it.

Physicality in football starts with the fundamental tenant of running the ball and stopping the run.

To that end, AFC North has been the prime example of it - big physical running backs, huge FBs (Ricard is listed at 300lbs+) and monster NTs to stop them.

Ravens have Pierce at 355lbs
Cleveland has Tomlinson who is listed at 6'3 325, but that is generous PR
We HAD Reader
Steelers deploy a base 3-4 with 3 big tackles in the interior backed up by thumper LBs behind them.

If we look starting with Baltimore at the turn of the Century, they won the SB with Jamal Lewis at RB weighing 247lbs and Siragusa/Adams in the middle of Baltimore defensive line each weighing 330+ lbs.

The 2024 version of Raven's 21 formation will have a 247lb RB following a 300lb+ FB. By midseason when defensive lines are bruised and battered, seeing Ravens in 21 formation will be scary.