The Refs, the OL, and the Coaching

[Simba]

The thing I don't get is why wasn't our plan to use Ricard as an extra blocker to help out our o-line early in the season. He only played 23% of snaps week 1 and I assume he played about the same this week, but last season with our established o-line we were using him for roughly 40% of offensive snaps

I’ll go the opposite side and say it’s time to move on from Ricard after the season and he probably should be playing less as we go forward. He’s a big body but his usage telegraphs exactly what we’re going to do

 

[JAAM]

Ravens will be ok

Probably not, but optimism is always nice

 

[rossihunter2]

 

[Dom McRaven]

Or the almost seniors at the college party lol.

 

[RavensMania]

The plus side is that we're a couple of plays away from being 2-0

the down side is that we consistently seem to fall on the losing side of these crucial plays in close situations

or a couple of ref calls

 

[redrum52]

or a couple of ref calls

Some real shit calls today.

 

[JoeyFlex5]

I have a real question and I'm not trolling!

How do you have an entire team meltdown like that?

The offense penalized itself and went 3 and out twice when it literally only needed 1 first down.

But then the defense gave up 2 4th quarter TDs. On drives where they had multiple sacks. They also penalized themselves.

Then special teams was atrocious too. Missed FGs, 24 yard punt, taking a KR to the 15 yard line.
Also having a penalty on the 24 yard punt which made it 19 yards.

How can you have a collapse of that magnitude. It was all 3 phases of the game. And this was against a bottom 3rd team while we were at home AND coming off a loss.

EDIT

And the coaching? Early in the game there was no effort to double Crosby from Monken.

Late in the game there was no help for Stephens on Adams.

Harbs wasted 2 TOs on brain dead challenges.

Defense did their job at the end of the day. they stopped the raiders but couldn’t stop the refs,

 

[JoeyFlex5]

Classic John Harbs game

Dude I was saying this the whole second half. My family was probably sick of my shit

 

[CanadianRavensFan]

I’ll go the opposite side and say it’s time to move on from Ricard after the season and he probably should be playing less as we go forward. He’s a big body but his usage telegraphs exactly what we’re going to do

Does it telegraph anything though? Last year we used him on both running and passing plays so it shouldn't hint what we are planning to do. Also this o-line has shown that they can't block worth a damn without help so let's give them help by keeping Ricard in to block

 

[29BmoreBird22]

Im still mad at Agholar for not attacking a deep ball Lamar finally put on the money and trying to catch it like a punt. We saw the difference with Adams, so annoying

A certain poster said it wasn't well thrown and Agholor had to slow down too much.

It wasn't a good throw. Awful, even. Not the Joe Flacco deep ball special.

 

[JoeyFlex5]

Fire EVERYONE.... HARBAUGH, MONKEN, ORR, SPECIAL TEAMS COACH, ERIC DECOSTA WHO CLEARLY IS NOT OZZIE.

See everyone next week when Monkens makes the Dallas defense 1000 times better than they played today. 0-4 incoming... look out Panthers, we are coming to steal the 1st overall pick.

High draft pick and Harbaugh fired would be fucking dope if we suck tho

 

[Davesta]

Because as we all know a fractured LR leads to success

What success?

 

[Simba]

Does it telegraph anything though? Last year we used him on both running and passing plays so it shouldn't hint what we are planning to do. Also this o-line has shown that they can't block worth a damn without help so let's give them help by keeping Ricard in to block

The usage so far and the offensive system we're seemingly trying to run this year... yes. There's still time to figure it out and build in more disguise, but when Ricard is on, it's generally been a run in the 1st two games.

 

[Davesta]

High draft pick and Harbaugh fired would be fucking dope if we suck tho

Klint Kubiak looking mightily fine right now.

 

[allblackraven]

I feel like we have gone back to the GRo days where every play is almost a delay of game

Noticed Lamar few times today pointing at helmet, asking for a call, with 15 sec left on the clock. Either equipment was faulty or Monken doesn't know what he's doing.

 

[allblackraven]

I’ll go the opposite side and say it’s time to move on from Ricard after the season and he probably should be playing less as we go forward. He’s a big body but his usage telegraphs exactly what we’re going to do

He's a Charger in '25.

 

[Simba]

Just saw a clip of one of Henry's negative runs and it was all Faalele. Not only was he too late on the pull, but he was so out of sorts trying to get there that he cut off Linderbaum's angle to his mark too.

 

[Simba]

Also I continually hate Monken's cute play calling in key situations. The play worked (minus it being called back by a penalty) but you cannot tell me that a handoff to Charlie Kolar on a key 3rd and 1 is a good play when we employ Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry.

 

[CanadianRavensFan]

The usage so far and the offensive system we're seemingly trying to run this year... yes. There's still time to figure it out and build in more disguise, but when Ricard is on, it's generally been a run in the 1st two games.

Okay, but I'm criticizing his usage through 2 weeks and how we aren't using him as a blocker more to assist our o-line that has struggled through two weeks. I think that if we use him as a blocker for atleast long developing pass plays we can create a somewhat more efficient offense

 

[OURavensFan]

It’s pretty clear now watching the bears game and other games, our O line is a travesty. It is so bad