This has been debated for years and years about Ravens players. This season, I decided to ask the same question to the players. And their answers are fantastic.
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“Obviously, he would be a pretty good choice for that,” Flacco said with a smile. “I’m pretty sure most of the guys on the team, for me, would be a … I could probably pick 90 percent of the guys I wouldn’t want to fight in an alley. So, I don’t know.”
Then I followed up with Yanda himself. Who would he not want to meet in a dark alley?
“I don’t know. Probably Steve Smith,” he said. “You would think you would probably hit that guy 100 times, [and he would] just keep on coming.”
I would make the same case for not fighting Yanda and told him so.
“Yeah, probably,” Yanda said. “It’d be a good fight, I’ll tell you that.”
Obviously, I had to run this by Smith. Who would he not want to tangle with?
“I’d pick any one of them,” Smith said with a grin.
“Marshal reminds me of [former Panthers tackle] Jordan Gross, who I went to school with and played with for a long time. [Yanda’s] a lot nastier. Jordan smiles a lot. Yanda doesn’t smile as much. I would say Yanda. But I’d still take him.”
For what it’s worth, below is my current top 10, in order. (Note to the players: please do not actually beat me up if you’re not listed or are lower than you think you should be.)
1) Marshal Yanda
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