im pretty sure he just got stuck on the field because the bills kept him on the field - he led the DL in snaps - he out-snapped Calais, Wolfe and Madubuike despite the pass-heavy game-plan - he also out-snapped McPhee who often takes interior snaps vs the pass too
that's not by the ravens choice
I mean that's possible, but like, if that's the case, why aren't you adjusting for that after the first drive or two? Like when the Bills don't run the ball for like the first 20 plays, why are you sending Williams out there in what basically had to be either a dime or nickel look on the first play of the first drive to begin with?
I mean just looking at the groupings from film study, we ran Nickel or Dime on 44 of 51 defensive snaps. So like it was extremely rare for us to have more than two Dlineman on the field at any given time. I understand the lack of rotation is possible, given the up-tempo nature of their offense, but its not like they were catching us in a base 3-4 personnel. We pretty much came off the sidelines on play 1 of any drive with 5 or 6 DBs.
As I look at the breakdown across groupings, the Dline was relatively "balanced" in terms of snaps. Williams 34, Wolfe 30, Campbell 30, Madubuike 24. So knowing that we very rarely played a 3 Dlineman set, it appears they didn't have too much trouble rotating out these guys.
Yet if you go to the linebacker side, we know Queen played a ton (49), Judon played a lot (40), but then you got a guy like McPhee playing 13 more snaps than Yannick, and even LJ Fort, who is typically a liability in pass coverage (though he did have one of his best games as a Raven), played 25 snaps.
So it looks to me like they didn't have much of a problem rotating defensive lineman, OR, if they were, then they were playing whole drives collectively, because that's about as balanced a Dline spread as you're going to find in a base 3-4 team that's playing mostly Nickel/Dime.
Its the linebacker distribution that wouldn't seem to make as much sense, given the opponent.
Ultimately this is mostly just postseason fodder for us to discuss who we're going to keep, because obviously, I have a hard time finding much fault with how Wink attacked this game, given his defense gave up 10 offensive points, one TD, and only one drive over 40 yards the whole game.