I'm glad that they hired people outside of the box, eg. non re-tread coaches who have been there, done that, got fired. These guys are brilliant, young, and hungry for success in this league.
These hires have EDC written all over it.
I'm glad that they hired people outside of the box, eg. non re-tread coaches who have been there, done that, got fired. These guys are brilliant, young, and hungry for success in this league.
These hires have EDC written all over it.
that's very interesting and thanks for bringing this up. I totally missed that from Zrebiec.idk about that - zrebiec said before any of the hires happened that Harbs was on the look out for fresh ideas and was probably going to be looking outside the organisation for at least some of the hires (turns out all of them lol) - we've got a reputation for hiring mostly internally but apparently it was one of his desires to freshen up the staff
the poaching of our staff gave him that opportunity
I’m so excited for Keith Williams. Could very well end up being our OC.
Like jim Caldwell, qb whisperer but not really known as a strong playcallerI wouldn’t go that far. That’s not really his thing. He’s a technique guy, not some sort of offensive mastermind. More consultant than designer.
Like jim Caldwell, qb whisperer but not really known as a strong playcaller
This is the biggest step into the 21st century maybe ever for the ravens lol. Love how we’re approaching the passing game this offseason and knowing lamars character and ethics I think we’re gonna see dividends
Yeah I got on board with that same train of thought pretty easily. Yeah you can maybe make Lamar a better passer, but what’s the end result for that? It could be average overall, but with this system we are doing something special, like historic, let’s try fine tuning and building off of that, because it’s proven to be good for 10+ wins more often than not. Really the goal here is to just get better situationally, have something we can execute with ease when we are in situational football, develop schemes to counter certain looks that are giving you fits on the ground, just situational flexibility. If Roman and these new guys can develop that, then we got something really specialthis is why i think the stuff about firing Roman was way too premature - yes we can look at his history of fizzling out - but you can also look at his history and see him not getting many chances to progress his offence either...
i just look at what he was able to do (with the rest of the staff) in the 2019 offseason and create over that entire offseason the best running game in NFL history and my question was what's actually stopping him and the staff from doing that again just for the passing game this time
now partly last time around that was about R&D with all sorts of college coaches and even high school coaches and consulting with paul johnson etc.
i wonder if these 2 hires are part of the start of that process (tbf we dont actually know when they were hired - just that they were announced a couple of days ago)
this is why i think the stuff about firing Roman was way too premature - yes we can look at his history of fizzling out - but you can also look at his history and see him not getting many chances to progress his offence either...
i just look at what he was able to do (with the rest of the staff) in the 2019 offseason and create over that entire offseason the best running game in NFL history and my question was what's actually stopping him and the staff from doing that again just for the passing game this time
now partly last time around that was about R&D with all sorts of college coaches and even high school coaches and consulting with paul johnson etc.
i wonder if these 2 hires are part of the start of that process (tbf we dont actually know when they were hired - just that they were announced a couple of days ago)
Might also be our new way of getting 3rd round comps.
It's *** so dont get too stuck on this but...
it really doesn't seem to be about the money if this is true...
but maybe it's a Hurst situation where we realise that the player doesn't want to be here and we try and make sure we recoup as much value as we can while facilitating that for the player
the value would have to be great though - otherwise we're just being robbed of a really good RT
Ok is it true that our worst case scenario oline wise next year would be Stanley, Bozeman, Mekari, Powers, Phillips if OBJ leaves?
yeah that's probably the worst case (if everyone's healthy) - but obviously stanley's coming back from injury and phillips is not a tackle so... not ideal at all lol
Yep Stanley off an injury, Phillips isn't a tackle, and center is still really iffy. I don't think we're dead if he leaves, but we gotta try and limit the holes to one position on the line and not 2 or 3. If we can get a quality center and just use Tes to help the right side we will be ok. But we're going to be playing Russian roulette with the tackle depth we have.
It's *** so dont get too stuck on this but...
it really doesn't seem to be about the money if this is true...
but maybe it's a Hurst situation where we realise that the player doesn't want to be here and we try and make sure we recoup as much value as we can while facilitating that for the player
the value would have to be great though - otherwise we're just being robbed of a really good RT