Thoughts were all over the place lol let me try to clarify...
There was a lot of coaching complaints before the Covid outbreak, players have been dissenting a little bit, things were shaky already, then this happened...
If the players aren’t suffering after effects, and are back to health and playing well, then harbaugh has to right the ship, this team is too good to be 6-5 and a big part falls on the coaching and throughout the season the body language and communication between players and coaches has not looked great, so if the players return to normal but we continue with the poor clock management, poor decision making, predictable play calling, poor game planning overall, etc. then we will miss the playoffs and it would be kinda hard to argue that harbaugh doesn’t hold a big share of the blame, and it mostly falls on the fact that he isn’t a X and O guy, when the OC isn’t getting it done the best coaching staffs see the HC take over play calling, harbaugh has never and it’s always been the Achilles heel of the ravens, going in with a weak gameplan dooms us from the start because the adjustments are just so rarely there.
I mean... I don't know that we're "too good to be 6-5". I write off yesterdays loss as a team that never had a shot via personnel.
The only other game that's an outlier is the loss to NE. I think Tennessee is better than us right now, I think Pittsburgh is better than us right now (though neither by a lot) and I think KC is clearly better than us. That's basically 3-4 losses at least.
Like this is definitely not a 9-2 team in my eyes.
I don't buy into any of the "bad gameplan" nonsense. In my opinion, there's really never been such a thing as a "bad gameplan". I think every NFL HC in and even assistant coach in this league is capable of watching film on opponents, determining weaknesses, and developing a gameplan to expose those.
Pretty much everything after that is execution.
The Ravens didn't have a bad gameplan yesterday. They didn't have a bad gameplan against Pittsburgh the first time either. They didn't even have a bad gameplan against Tennessee. We lost to Pittsburgh the first time because our QB kept turning the ball over, which is never a part of any gameplan.
We lost to Tennessee because our secondary kept getting faked out of our shoes, which was partially because the gameplan was not to get run over, which we largely didn't. DB's biting on play fakes and getting exposed in coverage isn't a part of any gameplan.
There is one game this year we lost because of bad coaching in my eyes, and that was KC. Personnel and execution played a role, but I think Wink had his worst game as a Raven that game.
Like fans like to talk about clock management and play calling, etc., but that's because they over-emphasize a situational plays in a game, and ignore the dozens of others that weren't executed properly that had just as much, if not more, impact.
I would concede that mid-game adjustments are sometimes our achilles heal, but at the same time, I look at a game like Indianapolis, where mid-game adjustments were clearly one of the reasons we WON that game.