10-12-2020, 03:28 PM
(10-12-2020, 03:17 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Yep.
These OL are not skilled enough to handle the scheme.
Simplify it and play to their strengths. I think we'd see quite an improvement from the Gs especially, as Jordan and Price are used to driving off the ball when at Ohio St and Redmond's skill set fits it better too.
You can't get any simpler than what we are running, I am not sure how else to explain this to people. We are playing B.O.B, the issue is on an odd 3-4 front you have 3 down linemen and you have to ID 2 "backers" (these can be defensive backs as well). On overloads, you HAVE to slide to the overload and play backside B.O.B there is literally no other way to play it. In a four-man front B.O.B is a little simpler to call because you are usually only designating the "Mike" and then the 6th man is either picked up by pulling in a TE/WR or you throw hot.
What makes the Ravens so tough to stop, especially for a rookie, is that when you go to ID the 2 backs they often aren't the 2 backs coming as you expect. When that occurs and you have misidentified the blitzes your O linemen are either good enough to adjust on the fly or they aren't. We either need perfect protection Id'ing (which you aren't getting from a rookie) or you need competent O linemen to make up for it...which we don't have.
Side note, to people saying "Sacks came from none D linemen so our line was good" you are 100% wrong. In an odd front look with B.O.B your O linemen are responsible for two of the "backers/DB's", simply saying since they weren't d linemen they weren't the O lines responsability is simply not true. Plenty of the misses came on bad HB pick up but plenty were guys either not getting the right protection set, or on a few issues, not getting out to their guy.
