Defensive Coverage

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(09-28-2015, 01:10 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: I think the defense had a plan to just stop the deep ball. Most the games Flacco wins is with a lucky deep ball or deep ball PI call. We just let them throw it short and hope we could make the tackle. It almost backfired because Smith is a beast, but technically we got the W so I cant complain. It's rare to watch a game where Flacco doesn't throw deep like he did yesterday. The Ravens really have issues without a deep threat, as that is Flaccos game.

I understand what you're saying, but this Ravens team has no deep threat.  Torrey Smith used to be their deep threat.  So why not double cover Smith and take him out of the game?   I mean, IIRC, they had no sacks of Flacco yesterday.  I'm fairly confident if they doubled Smith, that Flacco would have been sacked atleast once or twice.  Unless, maybe that's what they did and Smith beat it anyway?

I also remember one play where Smith made a short catch on Leon Hall, and burned him on the tackle attempt. So, in the end, you have to give him credit (as much as I don't want to).

Maybe it was one of the worst tackling days for the Bengals defense, I don't know.