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The Lamar, the Defence, and the Injury

allblackraven

Hall of Famer
I hate it when O line puts Lamar repeatedly behind sticks. It's a miracle what he did in the second half.

Tough 3 game stretch coming up. What hope this D has if Hamilton is out? If he didn't get injured, this was going to be the last game for Marcus in Baltimore.

Travis Jones makes a big difference up front. We put some good pressure on Burrow.
 
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rossihunter2

Staff Member
Moderator
I just can’t get over this defense. We can see they have the talent. I don’t know why we just constantly see blown coverages over and over again. I just can’t fathom what’s not resonating there. It just feels like the same thing over and over again - one guy loses touch of where he should be and that’s where we get attacked. And it’s different guys seemingly responsible every week.

We can’t play zone right now. The chemistry, communication and feel is off. So just play man while we figure it out.

Go back to basics and it’ll be frustrating at times and will limit the defence from being an elite unit but will help it be not this abject disaster

Right now the defence is trying to do lots of things and it’s doing them all poorly - go back to something simple and just try and be a complementary unit to a historic offensive unit
 

Dom McRaven

Hall of Famer
I hate to say it because the dude is an asshole, but Chase is so damn good and fun to watch
You have no idea how BADLY I wanted them to draft Sewell over Chase. When AJ Green, I rejoiced because I was tired of seeing him against us. Now...................*sighs*...........................fuck.
 

Simba

Staff Member
Moderator
We can’t play zone right now. The chemistry, communication and feel is off. So just play man while we figure it out.

Go back to basics and it’ll be frustrating at times and will limit the defence from being an elite unit but will help it be not this abject disaster

Right now the defence is trying to do lots of things and it’s doing them all poorly - go back to something simple and just try and be a complementary unit to a historic offensive unit
I agree with you. It seems it’s time to go vanilla. Work in some stunts in the front 7 but let that back end build confidence and just play the man in front of them. It’s truly bizarre how often we fuck up and how often it turns into a pivotal play.
 

rossihunter2

Staff Member
Moderator
I agree with you. It seems it’s time to go vanilla. Work in some stunts in the front 7 but let that back end build confidence and just play the man in front of them. It’s truly bizarre how often we fuck up and how often it turns into a pivotal play.

Our leverage and discipline in zones is a mess - partly because of the disguises we’re trying to do but not succeeding at because the pictures were showing QBs aren’t convincing anyway and the poor leverage means the disguise doesn’t matter because guys are running free anyway
 
I’d like to give a Ravens game ball to Zac Taylor for terrible coaching.
In all honesty we have won the last two games because Zac Taylor, Sean Payton, Bo Nix and Joe Burrow have received lobotomies before they played us. SO many 4th down attempts that have been overthrown go balls
 

Simba

Staff Member
Moderator
Our leverage and discipline in zones is a mess - partly because of the disguises we’re trying to do but not succeeding at because the pictures were showing QBs aren’t convincing anyway and the poor leverage means the disguise doesn’t matter because guys are running free anyway
You know by now I’m not a big blame the coaches guy, but the lack of discipline from this team both from the responsibility aspect and the penalty aspect is infuriating. The players are obviously the ones making mistakes but the coaches (anyone from Harbaugh down to the positional coaches) are the ones that need to drill that discipline. There just seems to be a large disconnect, and I’m sure a lot of that has to do with such a heavy coaching turnover. We got ransacked.
 
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