Baltimore Ravens offense must ‘slam the door’ when they can | Pro Football Talk | NFL on NBC

And it’s funny because after the first three weeks, everyone was saying, Lamar Jackson bet on himself and he won. And I said, folks, there’s 14 games left this year, two more seasons of franchise tag. This is not the time for the chips to be cashed in the bed, has a long way to go. And the last four games after seeing 10 passing touchdowns and two turnovers the first three weeks. Now, we’ve got three passing touchdowns and five Turnovers, what’s going on with Lamar? Jackson after the first three games of the Season? Yeah. Well, I think,

you know, two things they’ve run the ball a little bit better, okay. They played some good defense has and the fact that they had applied the bills and the Bangles and the Giants and Wink Martindale, who obviously knows, you know, the offense a little bit as well. So I think that’s kind of, you know, Ben been part of the issue, he has not played his best football, he’s had some some bad turnovers late in the Ball game this game. Especially right, there’s two interceptions in the second half ton being bigger than this right here, with

a chance to win the game and now the bills go down the field and do it. No. So there’s been yeah,

mistakes throughout the Giants game the interceptions at the end of the game there. And then, of course, the strip sack fumble, that Thibodeau gets. This was really probably the worst decision of the year and all the football that the fact that he did that. So he hasn’t played his best football down the stretch and I will I’ll say this to Mike and this is one thing that we do, see with the Ravens and this

is why their run game has to work and it’s getting better and it has to continue to get better. They’re passing offense has not you know, a reinvention of the wheel. It’s good. It’s got a lot of what you need, there’s no doubt. But it’s not like, oh, to the fact of, you know, oh wow. It’s just they reinvent themselves every week, and attack you from so many different ways, know it. You can catch on to it. And then when you don’t have Rashad Bateman out there, healthy your one really go to difference making wide

receiver. I think that causes issues for them to so I think it’s a little bit of him being careless and a little bit of teams catching on to their passing offense. Honestly, in my opinion, Mike, let alone, they played some very good defense has here as of late, Gus Edwards, provided a boost against the brown. 16 carry? 66 yards to yatch Downs just in time because JK Dobbins on injured reserve with knee issues. Shoes, again, Edwards back, and that helps and look, Canyon Drake has come on. He has. And, and they like, to sprinkle Injustice

Hill, right? And it can’t just be Lamar running for 100 yards every week and then throwing for 100 or 200 or ever the case may be. They do try to spread it around a little bit. Right? You know, this team, this team at four and three, they should be happy but they all show should be really pissed because they could be 7 and up. It really could be they’ve Own leads and to the team’s credit, they buckled down against the Browns and didn’t blow that lead. Although they tried to blow it. They tried. And that’s

where the offense has a role in this. It isn’t just one. A lead is blown. It isn’t just the defense sucks. It’s the offense has done something to open the door for the other. Team’s offense to have an opportunity to exploit a defense. That is having a hard time holding a lead. We saw the interception that was thrown by Lon. Our Jackson on that, fourth down play that ill-advised decision. The last thing you want to do there when you’re playing the analytic saying. Well, if we don’t get it, they’ll have the ball on the to

they got to go 98 yards. Oops, now they only have to go 80 because I threw an interception in the end zone. That’s a thing that doesn’t get pinned to the offense the way, giving up the touchdown, gets pinned to the defense, but that’s part of it. The offense needs to slam the door when it has opportunities. Chris. Yeah, no. It hasn’t done that. You’re right. You know, there’s been some chances to slam the Or at least make things very hard on another team and they didn’t and I’ll but yeah, I the defense the defense

yes. Is had hard time holding leads and I think it’s a little bit because we talked about the pass rush and and you know, some of their secondary guys, maybe not playing as well. A few injuries there as well. But yeah, I think when you look at some of the leaves early on in the year it was a little bit of like, okay. They blew it but the one thing they weren’t doing at that point, was running the football and where it became a little bit of the, the Passing attack, and it was their style

of play was lending teams to. Hey, you’re going to have a chance to come back here as of late. They’ve started to run the football and are doing the right things there. It’s been more The Mistakes by Lamar that have kind of hurt them. And that way, it’s not necessarily the running game, the fact that they can do that. It’s the Giants game mistake. Since, you know, Buffalo at the end there. And, you know, again, I don’t think why. I don’t want to understate the fact that they’ve had a play. Some defense has Understand, you

know how they operate the Bangles? The Browns? Wink Martindale. I mean, damn, those are three of like the, you know, top people you would go well, they probably understand their system better than anybody. Let alone yet a deal with McDermott and Leslie Frazier. So, I think that’s led to a little bit of a, you know, like wait, what’s happened with them tonight? They’ll be an interesting night to see the Bucks. Don’t stop the run, all that well and Ravens like you just talked about got to go in a little in that direction. They’re going to

put the Buccaneers and some Vines. Ins and it’ll be a good test to see if they can kind of get things going back in the right direction. We need to take a break. Yeah. By the way, peel. Back the curtain. Anytime I say we need to take a break. That means kourtney’s told me break, but I do have to say one more thing. What? Because I thought of this yesterday, yeah. There’s some lingering potential for the old-school Ravens Patriots. Bad Blood to trickle into this one. Between Harbaugh John head coach to the Ravens and Brady.

I think back to that playoff game. When the Patriots were down 14 points, two different occasions, they did the funky formation and there was questions about whether or not they’re playing fast and loose. Harbaugh was upset. And at one point, Tom Brady said something along the lines of. Hey, go read the rule book. Yeah. So he kind of jumped into The Fray and and I know John Harbaugh and I do a little bit. Yeah he he still remembers that and he stole Associates that with Tom Brady so he’s not going to go easy on the

old man tonight if they get an opportunity to Rattle him to frazzle him to make him look mortal yet again, John Harbaugh. Is going to enjoy it. He may not say it but I think deep down he’s going to enjoy, you know, it’s the say hello to your dad. Yeah mentality, I marry his brother, Jim has, he’s going to take Glee in the ability to contribute to the demise of Tom Brady. Well I’m sure. I mean, you know, he’s a horrible, he’s a tough SOB. I think he’d probably takes joy and and and you know

being a part of the demise of anything almost as far as competitive Football goes, that’s the way it is, you know? But Either they’re awesome and we’ll see, you know, we will see, you know, Brady, they’re going to have some opportunities. I think to throw the ball and be successful against the Ravens here tonight. You know, the other side of that is I think Lamar and Company could have some sex success against a bux –d that you know, is not the same. Like we were taught was just crazy without jpp without Ndamukong Suh right? Hakeem

Hicks they signed him but he’s been hurt a lot the last few years. Guess what? He’s hurt again Shaq beerus not playing as well as you should be. Be, you know, Carlton Davis is not out there. There’s no Sean Murphy bunting, right? Antoine Winfield is banged up. They lost Jordan Whitehead and free agency. So their defense is not the same, and then they don’t stop the run here as of late. And that’s going to be an issue. I mean it is this this Ravens offense in line and the way they push people around lately and

open up holes in the design. Lamar quarterback runs, I think it’s going to pose some problems for the bucks. The Bucks don’t have Sighs other than V Tavella inside. You know everybody else getting pushed around for the most part and that’s where this game could go either way. I could kind of see this game maybe even being a struggle and like, oh, wait defense has got a good game plan but I also wouldn’t be shocked to see if this game ended up being a little bit of like last week where it becomes a track meet

to a degree for a little while. I wouldn’t, I think there’s two teams here that have some things that pose problems or the other defenses and we’ll see where it goes. That’s where it’s going to be fun tonight.

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