drjohnnyfever
Pro Bowler
This is true, but Greg Roman HAS to evolve his passing designs and expand his personnel use.
Honest question: What makes you believe he'll pull it off? He hasn't done it yet neither in Buffalo or San Francisco.
I don’t. To me it’s a broken record at this point.
that said, after calming down a minute, it makes sense. The ravens in 2 years have built the greatest rushing attack of all time, and when it’s all said and done I think they will say the ravens had a rushing attack so great it will never be matched again, Greg Roman built that, and he built it around our dual threat qb. You don’t just get rid of that, you work with it and build on it as much as possible, experiment and let Roman, harbs, urban, and Culley cook something up, and implement it with full faith that your qb can pull it off. But the gameplan will always revolve around our rushing attack, you just can’t change that up so soon.
if you really think about it, the ravens are looking at potentially becoming the most unique nfl team ever, to compete in this day and age with this type of offense for more than 1-2 years is insane, we have the foundation to do it for a fairly long time. Can’t really blame harbaugh or Eric for wanting to stay the course and see this thing through, they feel like they’re on the cusp of something “different”
This is the discussion in my head!
I don't think you throw a coach out who has this kind of strange success with multiple teams, but there has to be development of a passing game. Can Roman use that savant-ish understanding of the running side to develop a passing scheme on his own? I'm sort of dubious on that, but you've got to expect 2 things.
1 - other teams won't want a half of coach, potentially and
2 - he has to want to improve
...so assuming he can't do it on his own, which is his history, he would benefit from working with another asst. OC that would develop and integrate the passing scheme into the overall OFF. If we get production like we did in the 13-3 season from a passing OFF, good heavens!
But I will ask this as an age old question......... when you have a talent like Lamar that is so explosive and has such potential do you jettison the player or a coach first to get your bearings on where things are? I say coach. But I don't know that in this situation that's right because it seems like they are sort of victims of each other's successes and failures. But if I had to choose right now, despite how Lamar looked at points this year, I'd still have to stick with him.