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Lamar, The Running Game and The Defensive Collapse
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Dom McRaven
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Outscored 28-3 in the 4Q? Yeah you can't make this shit up.
SaltyDog
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Well TBH the offense scored 38 today. On most days that’s plenty, so maybe a better question is: where was the defense in the 2nd half? I mean they played decent in the 1st half, minus no pass rush, but damn they was ugly in the 2nd half. Lol
cobrajet
Hall of Famer
I am not sure but that had to be the biggest collapse in Ravens history. I feel I will remember this game for years…..not in a good way!
airconteka
MVP
What I don't understand is given our pass game was far more effective than the run game why when we needed a yard we tried to smash it up the middle of a stacked box. Like you don't go for the knockout blow with your weaker hand.
UPennChem
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Facts
Old Bay
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RaineV1
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The offense could move the ball but couldn't kill the clock. This loss is obviously not their fault, but it is something we'll need to be able to do moving forward.
Maybe the team needs to learn how to spread out and hit quick passes, like the Patriots used to.
NaturalBornHitters
Veteran
Humphrey and Peter's had limited snaps to preserve them so that hurt. Offense needed to step up to fill the void. They failed so many 3rd and 1 plays too
NaturalBornHitters
Veteran
We're missing our bread and butter, the run game.
Davesta
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NaturalBornHitters
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Yeah but how effective is he going to be right away? Could take sometime
Davesta
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True.. but our run game sucks. Gotta try something. If we factor out Lamar’s run, we rushed 16 for 32 yards (2.3 yards per carry). What good is GRo at OC if the run game is this bad. Dude better off just hitting the snooze button and let Lamar call whatever he wants
i think he panicked because we got no pressure and because the dolphins were getting lots of intermediate throws too easily
rather than staying the course he went for something hyper aggressive and was punished for it
it's also ridiculous because as soon as the dolphins tied it we started passing and suddenly we were driving again after 2 3 and outs where we ran the ball and put ourselves in 3rd and long (still should have converted one of those on the likely drop) - and the drive only stalled after we attempted to run the ball again
we've got a running game problem - but it really shouldnt have torpedoed this offence if we just stopped trying... dolphins could not stop us when we passed the ball all game - we didnt even punt until we started running the ball too much
if you cant kill the clock, the next best thing is to drive and score TDs - we did neither because we tried to kill the clock
we played passively and it bit us
Lamar was really critical (in the way that Lamar is) when talking to the media. Basically called out Roman for forcing the run when it wasn't working.
JO_75
Hall of Famer
This. Lamar and the offense puts up 38 points and we can't win the game? That should be enough, it would have been enough points any other time. I think as some alluded to, the way we constructed the roster with very little pass rush is partially to blame. Macdonald and everyone on defense not named Marcus Williams owe Lamar a big apology for giving this game away. All I know is we have got to beat the Patriots to get to 2-1 next week because if our defense is going to play like that against the Bills in Week 4, Josh Allen will carve us up like Tua did.