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The Defense, The MVP, and The Brock Purdy

Willbacker

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Simba said:
Mikey Macs had 300 pound dudes dropping into coverage and then stunting out to the edge all in a series. My mans had Purdy is hell trying to figure out what was going on.
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The double CB blitz was a hell of a call and dropping the big dudes. My heart about blew out of my chest.
 
Willbacker

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The 1st touchdown was my favorite call tbh. No receivers on the field and lining Cleveland and Kolar on the ends and Ricard and Likely lined up in the backfield in an inverted T in front of Edwards was a thing of fucking beauty. Brutality at its finest. Edwards walked right in and I dont see how you can stop it. Could be our form of the tush push.

I could go on and on and on about the beauty of all 3 phases of the game but I'm sure most of its been covered. I mean 5 picks?? Come on lol.
 
RavensMania

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Really weird that the Ravens have played the Seahawks, Rams and Niners one week prior to the Commanders.
 
rossihunter2

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Deebo813 said:
Lots of people criticize monken but i actually like his play calling.. shit i thought niners defense would hold us to like 20 points. Every game looks different from monken. Then, our fking oline played like shit last game but held up really good this game.
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maybe this is just what the offence looks like but so much of the success in this offence is lamar doing stuff out of structure
occasionally a beautiful play design will pop up and we do get good gains in structure but so much of the good stuff we get from this offence (mostly in the passing game) is stuff off schedule and out of structure... and clearly they practice that stuff a lot and understand that that's how we win right now

we're doing all this offensively with no downfield passing game and very little non-qb rushing success right now
 
rossihunter2

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marklar said:
* The Oline did a complete 180 after making the Jaguars look like world beaters, they made Bosa almost a non-factor in the pass game. The two penalties on Simpson and Stanley should normally have been really costly, but it was one of the days where the offense could overcome setbacks
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pat ricard had a lot to do with how good the protection was
 
rossihunter2

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marklar said:
The other potential bad is that there's a >50% chance we will be playing backups against the Steelers, which is unacceptable. If we once again play backups and get swept by the Steelers, not even a championship will outweight that. It should be forbidden to rest anyone against those fuckers, independent of any potential long term gains.
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last time we rested starters against the steelers in the final game of the year... we blew them out with tyler huntley and justice hill dominating
 
rossihunter2

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Simba said:
This was my biggest takeaway. A halfway competent run game probably would have had this thing in the bag much sooner. Speaks even more to what Lamar is doing right now.
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the argument for MVP is over...
he is doing so much more with so much less... he's got a rotating triage ward at OT on both sides, he's got no reliable non-qb running game to work with and all the explosive players in that unit are out for the year, his best receiver is out and has been missing for the entire stretch and he's got a receiving corps that's not been particularly making more out of less

the only argument against him winning mvp is the TD numbers - but he's had 10 TDs "stolen" from him inside the 2 yard line lol (which is the one place where our non-qb running game has been hyper-effective at cashing in by the goal-line)

i dont know if there is a "fix" to the running game... especially if the coaching staff simply refuse to get melvin gordon involved (clearly not rating him)
 
cobrajet

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As much as I am pumped about this win, and I am, I am not gonna lie, I am still a little bummed about losing Mitchell last week. Maybe, Andrews can come back for the playoffs and give that another weapon to Lamar. Still not all that impressed with Kolar yet.
 
Simba

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rossihunter2 said:
the argument for MVP is over...
he is doing so much more with so much less... he's got a rotating triage ward at OT on both sides, he's got no reliable non-qb running game to work with and all the explosive players in that unit are out for the year, his best receiver is out and has been missing for the entire stretch and he's got a receiving corps that's not been particularly making more out of less

the only argument against him winning mvp is the TD numbers - but he's had 10 TDs "stolen" from him inside the 2 yard line lol (which is the one place where our non-qb running game has been hyper-effective at cashing in by the goal-line)

i dont know if there is a "fix" to the running game... especially if the coaching staff simply refuse to get melvin gordon involved (clearly not rating him)
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Lamar is certainly putting the pressure on the powers that be to take the literal definition and not the statistical standout. The guys that were in the running and likely to win have all faltered in recent weeks, leaving Lamar and a whole bunch of guys with question marks... just different question marks. Not sure there's anyone that embodies the words "most valuable player" more at this juncture, but the voters are going to have to get over their prototype. It seemingly doesn't exist this year.
 
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