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Perhaps no one is happier to have another crack at the Ravens than Antonio Gates, whose late fumble was a crucial turning point in the game.

“Baltimore is a good team,” he said.” A very good football team with a good defense. We get a chance to redeem ourselves. Me personally, I get a chance because I fumbled the ball at the end. That absolutely motivates me. I always go about my business in a professional manner. To me, it was all about letting the team down more so than it was about me getting over it. And now I have that chance to help this team get a win this time.”

Overall, it truly didn’t matter to the Bolts who they would face. Damion Square couldn’t care less who they were going to play, but he admits he likes the idea of avenging a previous loss.

“I want Baltimore,” he said. “We got Baltimore. I want Baltimore. See you all in Baltimore.… We did some good things in that game as a defense. Started off slow in the first half. They put up some big numbers. We kind of got the run under control in the second half or whatever, but we did some good things. (We) did some promising things. We just didn’t finish the game. We had opportunities to finish the game, just did not finish and this time we’ve got to finish. It’s simple.”

Meanwhile, this marks the first taste of the playoffs for the majority of the locker room.

Thus, Casey Hayward is putting the onus on himself to make sure they know the intensity is about to reach a whole new level.

“We played Baltimore before,” he said. “We’ve got to come ready. I always said, if you haven’t been in the playoffs, it’s going to be a lot different. It’s a little bit more intense. You’ve got to come more prepared as you’ve ever been. I’ve been to the playoffs four years. This is going to be my fifth year, but it’s always more intense. If you played the team earlier in the year, it’s a lot different. They’re going to play harder, it’s going to be a lot different.”

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