Agreed. It's not like we need to go out and revamp the whole system but there needs to be a major philosophical change. A healthy Ravens team has the pieces to make this work. We just need to adjust based on how teams have been playing us now and open it up a little more.
i do think Roman (if he stays) needs to fundamentally re-think the personnel we use - in the running game too...
it's unlikely we'll ever have an OL capable of dominating the way that 2019 front did which means that bringing extra defenders into the box with heavy sets is not necessarily that sustainable moving forwards - we've got Gus who always breaks tackles and JK who's amazing in space and difficult to corral also - would make a lot of sense to me to lighten the box moving forwards and stretch defences horizontally (and get more of our receiving weapons on the field) - there's definitely a role still for Ricard and Boyle but I think we have to re-think what our base offence looks like...
and i know 11 personnel was probably technically our base offence but we get into that package 3rd least in the NFL... we run the 2nd most 21 personnel and most 22 personnel in the league and i get that part of that's about Ricard but he's not a receiving weapon in the way that Kyle Juszczyk is (and the 49ers are for that reason the team that runs the most 21 personnel by far in the NFL... but notably they dont run much 22 at all) - we also lead the NFL by miles in 20 personnel which is an odd package lol but i imagine that's one we might see more with Dobbins and Gus next year
those heavier personnel packages are not helping us in the running game - we're pretty good running out of 12 personnel but the heavier we get (and ironically in all packages with ricard in the game) our YPC is not great - important contextually that some of that will be because the jumbo heavy sets come in shorter yardage and goal-line type offence but our ypc is best in 11, 12 and 01 personnel and it's ok in 21 personnel and we've been better in the passing game when we spread teams out too
just seems obvious to me what 1 simple easy change in terms of playcalling might be