07-09-2021, 11:21 AM
(07-09-2021, 11:05 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: While I agree with what you are saying, we lost Burrow for 7.5 games and Mixon for 13, not the entire season, so I would bump that six points for a little more than half the season. Which would put them around 23 points per game...good for roughly 22nd in the league.
I will point out that if you look only at the games that Burrow started and finished, they had 22.67 points. If you throw out the clunker against the Ravens, the average goes up to 25.13.
That tells me several things:
Burrow was right at the league average (16th) in games he started and finished (if you throw out the Ravens game. More on that in a second) despite facing solid defenses like LA (Woo Hoo, I didn't say San Diego!), Philly, Indy (who was ranked #1 at the time they played, iirc), and although I didn't count it in the stats because he didn't finish the game (and I know, they didn't score a lot) but he had 200 yards passing at halftime against the WFT.
This also tells me that they really need to figure out how to attack the Ratbirds. I know Joe didn't get a second chance, and his second time facing the Browns showed a strong step up. That being said, right now that defense has totally dominated ZT's offense.
That Raven's defense is a damn good defense with a lot of talent. I'd say they have more talent on D than we've had on offense. When you have a crappy OL I don't care who your QB is if he doesn't have time he isn't going to pick apart a defense. The Ravens aren't going to give JB time in the pocket. Their gonna flush him or sack him. Zac needs to be creative and call a balanced attack with the pass and run. Neither game last year 27-3 nor the last week of the season ass kicking 38-3 were competitive. I mean we didn't even score a TD against the Raven's last year. They were outclassed and humiliated. I hope some of that carries over to this season.
On another note, the Ravens DC I'd take him every day over our current DC. He could game plan around Lou all day every day.
