We just don't look fast at all. Which is surprising given all the supposed speed we have on this team. Why are we constantly motioning Ricard and the TEs from the line to the backfield and vice versa, but don't motion duvernay or brown across presnap and do at least a fake jet sweep a few times a quarter. Teams are overloading one side of the line when they see the mesh so having a brown or duvernay motion against that will widen the front the defense has to protect
So while I agree, my problem is that motion like this works when your receivers can run full route-trees and are threats from anywhere on the field. Our guys are not.
Hollywood Brown is really not that difficult to defend, as teams are figuring out. Lamar won't throw to the perimeter unless he's scrambling that way, so if you have the middle of the field flooded and can cover deep, you're fine long term.
The only thing that matters with Lamar, to me, is that he needs to be more accurate with ball placement, and he needs to spend every single second of January (whenever we lose) through July doing nothing but throwing the ball outside the numbers. He shouldn't even practice having a receiver run any other route combination other than him throwing outside the sticks.
Like I'm not trading Lamar for Flacco obviously, but there are a LOT of throws that Joe Flacco can still make that Lamar can't, won't, or simply chooses not to. The Derrick Mason route tree was a thing of beauty, because he could just use the boundary to his advantage and create space via actual route combinations.
I would love, love, love, love to see Lamar, on multiple instances in a game, stand in the pocket, step up, and throw a 15 yard out or curl to the sidelines. I'm not even sure I care if it gets picked off. I just want to physically see him do it.
To be honest... if I were an NFL team, I'd never play man against the Ravens. I'd use a Cover 1 zone scheme, and just give up everything outside the numbers. Flood the middle of the field, keep one safety deep for the 2-3 times we go deep a game, and pack it in against the run.
I'd feel extremely confident in my ability to slow down this offense with using, what would basically be, an extremely vanilla, base-level defense.