a) Trestman and Marty passed for the first few weeks before they went to more of a run heavy plan, presumably on Harbaugh's orders, (which no one minded at the time because they were both horrible OCs who should never have been hired and there passing games were never any good anyway. ) Just pointing out a pattern.
b) Why are the Ravens running so much if Monken is driven by his personnel? The Ravens clearly have talent more suited to the passing game - the WRs are a better group than the RBs, the TEs are all pass catchers first, blockers second and the O line seems more suited to pass blocking.
Because they're too conservative in the second half playing with leads, which has been basically every game.
And I think their run game is somewhat inflated by Lamar designed runs or scrambles, which will be a staple in any offense he runs with any OC. Otherwise I think they're leaning on RBs a little bit less than previously.
Also would at least partially point out that you had weeks of overlap where some of your receivers weren't on the field (Odell missed two games, Bateman and Andrews each one), and weeks of overlap where your Oline was playing 2nd or 3rd stringers, who obviously aren't as good in pass protection. I'm not sure Mekari, Faalele, or Mustipher are guys that really instill confidence in pass protection at this point. You could do worse, but those aren't guys you want playing multiple games.
I would also point out that, while I agree with the majority that we're far too conservative in play calling in the second half, it has, largely, been effective. At least from a W/L perspective. We were run heavy in the second half against Houston, Cincy, Cleveland and Tennessee, and we did win all of those games. The only game where I thought it backfired a bit was in Pittsburgh, and I had no confidence in our pass protection in that game.
The difference is a more dominant running game would "put these games away", so we didn't have to put pressure on the defense (ala 2019). We just don't have that.
