Julian Edelman Talks Ravens-Patriots
Though in different divisions, the Ravens and New England Patriots squared off eight times from 2008-2015, with four of those being in the playoffs.
On Julian Edelman’s podcast, “Games with Names,” he and Baltimore comedian Stavros Halkias reminisced on the Ravens-Patriots 2013 AFC Championship Game and the rivalry between the two perennial AFC contenders.
“[The Patriots and Ravens] were a rivalry, that’s what people don’t realize,” Edelman said. “Because we would play each other because we always won our divisions in the regular season so all the ‘ones’ play each other and then we’d always play each other in the playoffs. And the Baltimore Ravens were never scared to come to Foxborough. There were teams that used to [crap] their pants when they had to drive on Highway 1 and get up in there where we used to play the game. Baltimore came in in ’09, they didn’t give a [crap]. And they beat our [butts] right from the jump of that game. I hated it.”
Getting more into the game and the Ravens, Edelman would be remiss without mentioning Ed Reed.
“I remember Ed Reed’s last year, he lit me up in Baltimore,” Edelman said. “We ended up losing, it was [2012]. It was the game that I played in, he lit me up on a post and he was just so swaggy about it. Got up, he was just, like, a competitor.”
And, as usual, Edelman shared more on Bill Belichick’s widely-known affinity for Reed.
“Bill used to show like a 40-play cutup of Ed Reed every time we played him. And we’re like, ‘Bill, we saw this six weeks ago,’ and he’d just show another cutup,” Edelman said.