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gtalk12 said:
Cincy made some interesting adjustments, they were committed to stopping the run and not letting Lamar let loose. The only thing that made no sense to me was the commitment on to run on some obvious downs. It just seems like we have become predictable and even still we are successful. For now.
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really good article about it in the Athletic today in how they played quarters and basically crowded the middle of the field.
 
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gtalk12 said:
Cincy made some interesting adjustments, they were committed to stopping the run and not letting Lamar let loose. The only thing that made no sense to me was the commitment on to run on some obvious downs. It just seems like we have become predictable and even still we are successful. For now.
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The Ravens always ran on obvious downs last season. I think they ran on 1st a ridiculous number of times but they always got around 5-7 yards as opposed to 2-4 so it felt okay. Frankly the run blocking is not very good. They are going to have to find someone in the draft to fix this. I hope this next draft is a strong trenches draft.
 
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The Ravens always ran on obvious downs last season. I think they ran on 1st a ridiculous number of times but they always got around 5-7 yards as opposed to 2-4 so it felt okay. Frankly the run blocking is not very good. They are going to have to find someone in the draft to fix this. I hope this next draft is a strong trenches draft.
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Even if we do manage to address those things in the future, the now is what worries me. Are we just going to keep doing the same thing over and over?
 
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gtalk12 said:
Even if we do manage to address those things in the future, the now is what worries me. Are we just going to keep doing the same thing over and over?
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Their entire offensive personnel is built around being able to do what they did last season. They built their team to be a team that beats you with multiple rushing approaches and then uses play action and fast WRs to get big chunk plays in the air. Such a team cannot transition to being a pass first team or even an outside running team when they built their roster to play a certain way.

Basically fixing the interior OLine is probably a smaller ask mid season than rebuilding the entire offense. At this point though, if I am the Ravens, I am looking at trying to double or triple dip on the OLine in the next draft if the opportunity arises.
 
Dom McRaven

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Adreme said:
I mean using Gus last week did not work. Though to be fair the Ravens problems stem from not creating holes and I see no way in which another back magically helps the OLine create holes.
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gtalk12 said:
Cincy made some interesting adjustments, they were committed to stopping the run and not letting Lamar let loose. The only thing that made no sense to me was the commitment on to run on some obvious downs. It just seems like we have become predictable and even still we are successful. For now.
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And that is my issue right there. It seems at times we're hellbent on running on first down with Ingram. I don't know how extensive G-Ro's playbook is, but there's no harm in opening it up for a play or two just to keep the defense honest.
 
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Dom McRaven said:
And that is my issue right there. It seems at times we're hellbent on running on first down with Ingram. I don't know how extensive G-Ro's playbook is, but there's no harm in opening it up for a play or two just to keep the defense honest.
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Lamar is 5-20 on deep throws this season. Defenses know on pass plays to key in on Andrews and Brown and to dare him to throw to anyone else.
 
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I am so fucking bitter that we have Lamar Jackson and maybe the leagues best defense and a top 3 TE and a potentially generational talent at rb and we should be able to roll to dynasty status, but the fucking chiefs happen to be in the league at the same time.

If you replaced the Flacco era with this iteration of the ravens, they would’ve rolled right the fuck over those early tomlin Steelers and the patriots, but no we have this team in 2020 where we can essentially forget about a super bowl because we’re not getting past the chiefs any time soon.

There is 1 team I absolutely wanted no parts of bell with, and that’s KC, Andy Reid might fuck around and get 4000 all purpose yards from his top 2 backs if they played a full season
 
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JoeyFlex5 said:
I am so fucking bitter that we have Lamar Jackson and maybe the leagues best defense and a top 3 TE and a potentially generational talent at rb and we should be able to roll to dynasty status, but the fucking chiefs happen to be in the league at the same time.

If you replaced the Flacco era with this iteration of the ravens, they would’ve rolled right the fuck over those early tomlin Steelers and the patriots, but no we have this team in 2020 where we can essentially forget about a super bowl because we’re not getting past the chiefs any time soon.

There is 1 team I absolutely wanted no parts of bell with, and that’s KC, Andy Reid might fuck around and get 4000 all purpose yards from his top 2 backs if they played a full season
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