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Sooky said:
Give a business exec an inch, it will soon be a mile. I can guarantee that 2 minutes will be 30 minutes in the next 3 years.
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Exactly. This probably what they said for the 1ST NFL commercial. Now we get kickoff commercial play commercial punt commercial.
 
redrum52 said:
Exactly. This probably what they said for the 1ST NFL commercial. Now we get kickoff commercial play commercial punt commercial.
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I think it'll depend on what it looks like. Red Zone had ads last year. Nobody noticed or cared. If they do split-box ads, which is what's being reported they'll be doing, nobody will cares.
 
Dak was out there in the second half playing by himself

I am trying to figure out what position Ceedee plays and what they paid him to do
 
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I swear I should've turned off the game as soon as we elected to punt on our final possession. Yes, I would've still been upset but at least I would've avoided the agony and torture of watching the choke job being completed LMAO.
 
We were one CJ Mosley Interception away from being free of Harbaugh sooner. We'd have 3 or 4 Superbowls by now.

 
Dom McRaven said:
Come to think of it @29BmoreBird22 , I meant to ask your thoughts about the coverage schemes against BUF. I know it sucked that our pass-rush couldn't get home but......

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If Orr legitimately ran the same coverage for an entire quarter with no changes at all, that should get him fired this week. That is rookie Madden shit and unacceptable from a college CD let alone an NFL DC
 
Dom McRaven said:
Come to think of it @29BmoreBird22 , I meant to ask your thoughts about the coverage schemes against BUF. I know it sucked that our pass-rush couldn't get home but......

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So, I don't have the All-22 anymore and this is one of those games where I would NOT watch it again because it was heartbreaking.

That said, this person is way off.

Two things to note.

1. The Ravens, according to PFF, blitzed around 26% of the passing plays in the fourth, the highest of any quarter in the game. Blitzing doesn't happen in Cover 6. It happens commonly from Cover 0, 1, 2, and 3.

2. Cover 6 would have likely been preferable in the fourth with how badly the Ravens were getting beaten deep.

Cover 6, sometimes called Cover 4-2 or Quarters Quarters-Half, is a deep zone coverage. It employs Cover 4 concepts to half the field and Cover 2 concepts to half the field. Half the field has two deep and two underneath and half the field has one high safety and one underneath. The inside linebacker acts as the seventh zone defender and his job is to ensure that any crossing routes are adequately handled before being handed off or sinking into a more vertical set if there are no crossers.

The way it works out is that you play Cover 4 to the strong side and Cover 2 to the weakside. It's called when a team likes to put their single WR in isolated match ups on the weakside and stack the rest of their receiving sets to the strongside. Essentially, it offers the lone corner help over the top of the isolated WR (likely the WR1) and puts a top over the strongside while offering flexible run defense from the secondary.

Where it struggles is in the flats. Teams that can leak a TE or RB into the flat before the weakside linebacker or safety has time to hit the flat will have room to work with underneath.

With all that in mind, we were seeing the Ravens get beaten over the top and deep, not underneath, and given their moderately high blitz rate, I'm guessing we saw a lot more Cover 1 and 2 in the fourth quarter. I know on one of the plays that Coleman or Palmer (can't remember which, but think it was Palmer on the game sealing drive) smoked Jaire, Jaire was in man and got completely lost and allowed the man to get over the top of him before one of Starks or Hamilton bailed him out. Cris Collingsworth was absolutely gushing about Allen, but I thought a better throw and it goes for a touchdown. But, it goes for a touchdown on a better throw because Alexander was in man, allowed his man to get over the top, and the route was too wide for Hamilton to easily defend.
 
29BmoreBird22 said:
So, I don't have the All-22 anymore and this is one of those games where I would NOT watch it again because it was heartbreaking.

That said, this person is way off.

Two things to note.

1. The Ravens, according to PFF, blitzed around 26% of the passing plays in the fourth, the highest of any quarter in the game. Blitzing doesn't happen in Cover 6. It happens commonly from Cover 0, 1, 2, and 3.

2. Cover 6 would have likely been preferable in the fourth with how badly the Ravens were getting beaten deep.

Cover 6, sometimes called Cover 4-2 or Quarters Quarters-Half, is a deep zone coverage. It employs Cover 4 concepts to half the field and Cover 2 concepts to half the field. Half the field has two deep and two underneath and half the field has one high safety and one underneath. The inside linebacker acts as the seventh zone defender and his job is to ensure that any crossing routes are adequately handled before being handed off or sinking into a more vertical set if there are no crossers.

The way it works out is that you play Cover 4 to the strong side and Cover 2 to the weakside. It's called when a team likes to put their single WR in isolated match ups on the weakside and stack the rest of their receiving sets to the strongside. Essentially, it offers the lone corner help over the top of the isolated WR (likely the WR1) and puts a top over the strongside while offering flexible run defense from the secondary.

Where it struggles is in the flats. Teams that can leak a TE or RB into the flat before the weakside linebacker or safety has time to hit the flat will have room to work with underneath.

With all that in mind, we were seeing the Ravens get beaten over the top and deep, not underneath, and given their moderately high blitz rate, I'm guessing we saw a lot more Cover 1 and 2 in the fourth quarter. I know on one of the plays that Coleman or Palmer (can't remember which, but think it was Palmer on the game sealing drive) smoked Jaire, Jaire was in man and got completely lost and allowed the man to get over the top of him before one of Starks or Hamilton bailed him out. Cris Collingsworth was absolutely gushing about Allen, but I thought a better throw and it goes for a touchdown. But, it goes for a touchdown on a better throw because Alexander was in man, allowed his man to get over the top, and the route was too wide for Hamilton to easily defend.
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pretty sure this guy is just blindly quoting as fact something cole jackson said (the cover 6 stuff) somewhat frustratedly and not literally

but they did play a lot of cover 6 in the 4th quarter
 
I have no doubt that we beat the Colts in the AFC Championship Game then beat the Seahawks in the Super Bowl if we didn't blow 1... I mean TWO 14 point leads against the Patriots. Flacco could have been a 2 time Super Bowl Champion.... but no we just had to blow the leads in the divisional round of all games.

 
JO_75 said:
I have no doubt that we beat the Colts in the AFC Championship Game then beat the Seahawks in the Super Bowl if we didn't blow 1... I mean TWO 14 point leads against the Patriots. Flacco could have been a 2 time Super Bowl Champion.... but no we just had to blow the leads in the divisional round of all games.

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Ok but that was also the greatest QB ever throwing to guys "covered" by Rashaan Melvin. At least that was when we had a garbage secondary
 
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