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The Injuries, the Defense and the Offense (and the Special Teams)

Grim said:
That’s expansive journalism where they take lack of clarification on the question as more affirmation of the question. They may not be wrong but there’s nothing there won’t they Harbaugh won’t comment on whether the injury impacts Madubuike’s career and will leave it up to him to speak on when he is ready
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So after I read it I asked the author if that was actually what she meant to say and got this response;

No, this was an editing mistake on my part as I tried to piece paragraphs together quickly once the news broke today. We have no reason to believe anything beyond what John Harbaugh said today, which is that any information about the severity of the injury will have to come from Nnamdi
 
I just dont understand how a situation could be is he gonna rest and come back this year to being career ending.

That's why I think it's just classic Harbaugh saying dumb shit at the podium. Could be the kiss of death but im not worried about him long term
 
Grim said:
I suspect it’s due to the way Harbaugh was avoiding answering how it may impact his career. I was worried about that from the start because neck injuries rarely become better especially if it’s IR related.
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Disc damage doesn’t heal well, I can testify first hand to that.
 
Man Harbaugh really ripped into Monken and I agree with what he was saying a lot. Too many long developing routes with no checkdowns. Sometimes i wonder what coaches actually think, how can you watch our line so far and think that’s acceptable?
 
gtalk12 said:
I wouldn't go that far. The offense has looked fine all things considered and they have managed to score a ton of points. Yesterday, IMO, the biggest issue was what we called knowing the blitz was coming.

John seemed to really take issue with Todd
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Long term, and thus far this season, the D is miles behind the offense.
On Sunday, the offense was dogshit. The defense wasn't good by any stretch, but they pretty much did what I expected, which was nothing. Missing an entire Dline and most of your pass rushers means you're not going to have a good game.
I think for a single game sample, the teams lack of perceived planning for the blitz, or in John's opinion, lack of execution on how to beat the blitz, was the biggest problem in the game.
 
Simba said:
Can’t believe y'all haven’t learned that Harbaugh never says anything true up there when it comes to injuries. Don’t read into it.
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Does any coach? It’s even worse in hockey. A guy could have his head severed and they would call it an “upper body injury”. lol
 
Simba said:
I don’t see anything wrong with this rep. He was going to take one of the guys to the right before one backed off in coverage. Recognized the pressure was coming from the other side and chipped in.

He’s had bad plays but there’s nothing wrong with this one.
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Except that he bumped Linderbaum off the block
 
After seeing this thread, I will say something I said in the game thread-

I feel for Lamar. This feels A LOT like '21 where it felt like Lamar was playing hero ball because of a bad defense, bad offensive line, and non existent running game.

Whether you think it's fair or not, I would imagine Lamar is feeling A LOT of pressure on himself to make magic happen. That's generally been a really good recipe for success, too. But, it's been magnified this year because the margin of error seems so much smaller.

Depending on how you view it, the defense didn't get a stop against the Chiefs until Minshew took over. The Chiefs missed a field goal, which prevented them from scoring on all eight drives where Mahomes finished the drive, but they generally effortlessly moved the ball and, at worst, scored on seven of eight drives.

If you're the quarterback and you know that your defense is going to let up a score, you're going to do what you can to score on every play, too.

But, as I said earlier, and I think most people would agree, is that the running game and offensive line aren't performing up to par.

The Chiefs were dropping seven into coverage fairly regularly and rushing three, using one rusher as a spy. The thing is, the Ravens didn't do anything to help Lamar in these situations.

The offensive line was STILL allowing pressure when the Chiefs rushed three and the spy took away what Lamar wanted to do most when pressure comes from the edge- step up and climb the pocket.

The offensive play calling also didn't help anything. If teams are going to employ a spy, which is a linebacker, and have him line up on the line of scrimmage, the Ravens need to put a lineman onto him and run him into the ground. Run Linderbaum and Henry right at that. Teams are going to go light like this until the Ravens can punish it.

Additionally, the long developing routes aren't doing Lamar tons of favors. I understand that Lamar generally is able to buy time and make something happen to buy time for these routes, but with how teams are defending Lamar now, it isn't happening. The Ravens aren't winning with four against seven in coverage.

I agree with Harbaugh that the play calling was an issue. When Hill comes on for Henry, teams aren't going to hesitate to go light and employ this linebacker spy strategy. Having Henry in, even if you don't run the ball, is going to make running a light box an incredibly dangerous prospect.

Plus, their needs to be more schemed quick passes. Rush's first pass (can't remember if it was shotgun or under center) was a quick firing slant. Damn near catch and release. He also had a few designed swing passes.

I don't think Lamar is going to naturally gravitate toward the check down as an option, so I do think their needs to be play calling that forces him to just get the ball out quickly.

I think it's also worth considering that Lamar had cramps against the Bills. A lot of people have pointed out Lamar looked slower against the Browns, Lions, and Chiefs and now he's being pulled with a hamstring injury. Was the smoke always there?

Anyway, Lamar is FAR down on my list of concerns. I don't think he's perfect, but he's done more to help this team than hurt this team (which cannot be said for every player receiving significant snaps.)
 
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