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NFL Week 7 power rankings flag every team's offensive problem

ESPN's Week 7 rankings pick one offensive flaw per team; Baltimore's offense has drawn thirty-one flags, thirteen of them false starts and thirteen holding calls.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorESPN's Week 7 power rankings give all thirty-two teams one biggest offensive problem, and Baltimore's is the flag.

  2. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe Ravens have been flagged thirty-one times, which is the worst in the NFL.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty-one flags. Is that a lot, or is that just football?

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLook, it's a lot. Thirteen false starts and thirteen holding calls. I'm telling you, that's a crisis.

  5. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThirteen times somebody moved before the snap, thirteen times somebody grabbed a guy.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the offense is mostly the referee announcing what the offense did wrong?

  7. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorTackle Roger Rosengarten says when you're fighting behind the sticks, it's hard to get in a rhythm.

  8. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorBehind the sticks means the flag already landed and now you're third and fifteen.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFifteen what?

  10. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorYards, Kenji. Detroit's the other end of it: thirty-two point eight points a game, tied for most, and still twenty-second on third downs.

  11. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the Ravens are the only team that gets a replay of every play, from the referee.

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